>The way around this is to use multiple drugs that require multiple different mutations to survive. Or it might just as well end up beeing the fastest way for

>The way around this is to use multiple drugs that require multiple different mutations to survive. Or it might just as well end up beeing the fastest way for creating, even more, MRSA bacteria strains because the harsher the treatment, the more sturdy the survivors we will be. >There is an antibiotic candidate right now that is estimated to be 15,000x more effective because of smart design to require 3 different mutations to survive, but those mutations don't work together. As corny as it might sound, we really shouldn't underestimate nature like that, it's part of the reason what got us in this mess in the first place. If we can design something requiring 3 different mutations to survive, then sooner or later nature is gonna evolve something with those 3 different mutations. Nature has played this game far longer, and far more successful than we will ever be able to. That's why imho we need a better approach than "use more types of antibiotics", as that's essentially exactly what we've been doing this whole time.