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One of the most important questions. I have zero experience I'm speaking on, but my guess is they'd never completely die out. Unless every single strain of resi
by BoiledCabbage 7y ago
One of the most important questions. I have zero experience I'm speaking on, but my guess is they'd never completely die out. Unless every single strain of resistant bacteria were evolutionarily disadvantaged, it seems like a few or a number would stick around.
And that's all are needed to keep them around. I really hope the period of human history with anti-biotics wasn't a small window we got lucky enough to live in, because modern life will be very without it.
- heavyset_go 7y ago> One of the most important questions. I have zero experience I'm speaking on, but my guess is they'd never completely die out. Unless every single strain of resistant bacteria were evolutionarily disadvantaged, it seems like a few or a number would stick around. Antibiotic resistance is made up of expensive and inefficient adaptions that tend to drop out of the gene pool when those particular selection pressures subside. From what I've read, cycling antibiotics over time is purported to be one method of fighting resistance.