Resistance Maintained in Digital Organisms despite Guanine/Cytosine-Based Fitness Cost and Extended De-Selection: Implications to Microbial Antibiotics Resistance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13897v1
• Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 11:40:36 GMT
• Title: Resistance Maintained in Digital Organisms despite Guanine/Cytosine-Based Fitness Cost and Extended De-Selection: Implications to Microbial Antibiotics Resistance
• Authors: Clarence FG Castillo, Zhu En Chay, Maurice HT Ling
• Abstract summary: The aim of this study is to examine the rate of gain and loss of resistance where fitness costs have incurred in maintaining resistance. Our results showed that GC-content based fitness cost during de-selection by removal of antibiotic-induced selective pressure portrayed similar trends in resistance compared to that of no fitness cost.
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• Abstract: Antibiotics resistance has caused much complication in the treatment of diseases, where the pathogen is no longer susceptible to specific antibiotics and the use of such antibiotics are no longer effective for treatment. A recent study that utilizes digital organisms suggests that complete elimination of specific antibiotic resistance is unlikely after the disuse of antibiotics, assuming that there are no fitness costs for maintaining resistance once resistance are established. Fitness cost are referred to as reaction to change in environment, where organism improves its' abilities in one area at the expense of the other. Our goal in this study is to use digital organisms to examine the rate of gain and loss of resistance where fitness costs have incurred in maintaining resistance. Our results showed that GC-content based fitness cost during de-selection by removal of antibiotic-induced selective pressure portrayed similar trends in resistance compared to that of no fitness cost, at all stages of initial selection, repeated de-selection and re-introduction of selective pressure. Paired t-test suggested that prolonged stabilization of resistance after initial loss is not statistically significant for its difference to that of no fitness cost. This suggests that complete elimination of specific antibiotics resistance is unlikely after the disuse of antibiotics despite presence of fitness cost in maintaining antibiotic resistance during the disuse of antibiotics, once a resistant pool of micro-organism has been established.

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