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> Resistance to antibiotics would take us back to 1900, not to the brink of annihilation. You can't assume that the virulence of bacteria with evolved antibiot
by pulisse 7y ago
> Resistance to antibiotics would take us back to 1900, not to the brink of annihilation.
You can't assume that the virulence of bacteria with evolved antibiotic resistance will be like that of the strains that existed in 1900.
- maxerickson 7y agoThere's plenty of evidence at this point, it isn't an assumption.
- throwaway-hn123 7y ago> There's plenty of evidence at this point, it isn't an assumption. Literally bullshit. Please stop with your ignorance. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165128/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165128/
- Enginerrrd 7y agoNot so! MRSA has shown increased virulence as it has become more antibiotic resistant.
- saiya-jin 7y agoresistance to atb come and go, if there is no pressure to have defense then its abandoned over not so many generations
- Fomite 7y agoNot necessarily. It depends on what's hanging out on the same plasmid as the resistance gene, and if that confers an advantage.