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"If you develop a resistance to Vancomycin" It isn't you that develops the resistance, it's the bacterium. The problem being that resistant bacteria can be tra

• shrike 17y ago
  Your distinction is correct however the speed at which resistance can be developed can make the difference irrelevant. An individual (or the bacterium in an individual) can develop a resistance to a antibiotic in as little as two weeks. In the last month of my treatment the docs were running cultures back to back (every 7 days) to make I (the bacteria with which I was colonized?) wasn't becoming resistant to the Vancomycin. My infection was particularly hard to kill because the surgical screws had carried the infection deep into the bone (osteomyelitis).