Dutta Shanta
Shanta Dutta is in the Bacteriology Division, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India
Elife. 2013 Dec 10;2:e01809. doi: 10.7554/eLife.01809.
It has long been assumed that resistance to antibiotics reduces the fitness of disease-causing bacteria, but experiments on Salmonella Typhi, the bacteria that causes Typhoid fever, are now challenging this view.