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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Two-drug antimicrobial chemotherapy: a mathematical model and experiments with Mycobacterium marinum
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...