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Taking any anti bacteria medication on a regular basis will encourage resistance. I can not how that would be considered a good idea.
by bhouston 9y ago
Taking any anti bacteria medication on a regular basis will encourage resistance. I can not how that would be considered a good idea.
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoI don't take it daily, but obviously there's been an ongoing battle between bacteria and phages for millions of years, it is unlikely they'd be selected for too strongly in my gut (assuming the targeted species are even present at any given time).
- stevenwoo 8y agoIn the article it is speculated the main patient didn't get better during the initial course of treatment because the bacteria infecting him resisted the multiple phages they used to treat him - they were all variants of the same vector of attack(that worked in the labs on the bacteria in question), and the researchers had to find different phages to continue treatment, so they came across resistant bacteria immediately.