A Model for Emergence of Multiple Anti-Microbial Resistance in a Petri Torus
arXiv:1704.08583
Abstract
This work introduces a new statistical physics lattice model of bacteria interacting with anti-microbial drugs that can reproduce qualitative features of resistance emergence and whose model parameters and outputs can be measured with controlled \textit{in vitro} experiments. The lattice is inhabited by agents modeled by Ising perceptrons. The results show the advantage of mixing drugs among the population compared to other treatment protocols.
arXiv comment7 pages, 7 figures