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> what roughly is the half-life of antibiotic resistance in populations of bacteria? That's almost certainly gene specific. Think about human resistance to Ma
by nordsieck 7y ago
> what roughly is the half-life of antibiotic resistance in populations of bacteria?
That's almost certainly gene specific.
Think about human resistance to Malaria: there is a pretty strong downside.
There are probably other resistances humans have that don't really have an active downside aside from enlarging the genome.
- Filligree 7y agoWhich does count as a downside, to be fair. The genome has a maximum size set by the mutation rate.