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I always wondered, resistance is an energetic cost as it tends to disappear without constant selection pressure. Why not infect someone with the non-resistant s

I always wondered, resistance is an energetic cost as it tends to disappear without constant selection pressure. Why not infect someone with the non-resistant strain, let it outcompete the resistant strain inside the body and then kill it with antibiotics?

thombat 7y ago
In general the patient is only being treated because the infectious agent is doing some kind of damage (makes them sad/sick/dead...) So the fear is that before the non-resistant strain has supplanted the resistant one the patient has become too (sad/sick/dead)