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Peter Ankomah

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Kouyos R, Metcalf C, Birger R, Klein E, Abel Zur Wiesch P, Ankomah P, et al.
Proc Biol Sci . 2014 Sep; 281(1794):20140566. PMID: 25253451
The evolution of resistance to antimicrobial chemotherapy is a major and growing cause of human mortality and morbidity. Comparatively little attention has been paid to how different patient treatment strategies...
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Ankomah P, Levin B
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 2014 May; 111(23):8331-8. PMID: 24843148
The successful treatment of bacterial infections is the product of a collaboration between antibiotics and the host's immune defenses. Nevertheless, in the design of antibiotic treatment regimens, few studies have...
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Ankomah P, Johnson P, Levin B
PLoS Pathog . 2013 Apr; 9(4):e1003300. PMID: 23593006
There are both pharmacodynamic and evolutionary reasons to use multiple rather than single antibiotics to treat bacterial infections; in combination antibiotics can be more effective in killing target bacteria as...
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Ankomah P, Levin B
PLoS Pathog . 2012 Jan; 8(1):e1002487. PMID: 22253599
Multi-drug therapy is the standard-of-care treatment for tuberculosis. Despite this, virtually all studies of the pharmacodynamics (PD) of mycobacterial drugs employed for the design of treatment protocols are restricted to...
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Udekwu K, Parrish N, Ankomah P, Baquero F, Levin B
J Antimicrob Chemother . 2009 Feb; 63(4):745-57. PMID: 19218572
Objectives: To determine the functional relationship between the density of bacteria and the pharmacodynamics of antibiotics, and the potential consequences of this inoculum effect on the microbiological course of antibiotic...