Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem
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...Resistance can be intrinsic, meaning a basic characteristic that naturally occurs in the bacterium, and...another bacterium died for instance). These three mechanisms of acquired drug resistance are referred to as...competition drives microbes to develop survival mechanisms. Some microbes even make their own antibiotic...killed), thus increasing the initial microbe’s chances of survival. This was the whole basis of how penicillin...targets (ones that are less likely to mutate or change in order for the bacterium to survive).
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