Using antibiotic mixtures reduces the development of antibiotic resistance
Using antibiotic and antimicrobial mixtures is a recognized strategy to suppress or delay the development of resistance by exploiting evolutionary tradeoffs.
Multiple retrieved sources explicitly discuss the utility of multi-drug therapies and rational combination approaches in suppressing or mitigating antimicrobial resistance through evolutionary constraints, without any papers refuting the premise.
Campana FC, Incremona GP, Blanchini F, Colaneri P, Giordano G. Optimal Multi-Drug Therapies for Antimicrobial Resistance with Horizontal Transfer.. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-026-03025-y
The study demonstrates that multi-drug therapies and optimal control modeling can mitigate antimicrobial resistance.
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Shen X, Gitai Z. Rational Design of Resistance-Suppressing Phage-Antibiotic Cocktails via Receptor Tradeoffs. 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.12.724642
The research shows that rationally designed combination therapies (such as phage-antibiotic cocktails) leverage evolutionary tradeoffs to suppress resistance.
Papaneophytou C. Two Worlds, One Battle: How Bacteria and Malignancies Converge on Drug Resistance.. 2026. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms27104239
The narrative review highlights combination therapy as a key strategy to prevent, delay, or overcome drug resistance in convergent evolutionary systems.
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