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> This is absolutely not true I’m not saying modern medicine didn’t put a ton of evolutionary pressure on antibiotic resistance. However, there’s some evidence
by f6v 5y ago
> This is absolutely not true
I’m not saying modern medicine didn’t put a ton of evolutionary pressure on antibiotic resistance. However, there’s some evidence of AR genes being present in the microbiomes of previously isolated tribes [1]. So we didn’t promote the “invention” of AR by bacteria, but likely just accelerated the selection of AR strains.
1. 10.1126/sciadv.1500183
- criticaltinker 5y agoI see, thanks for elaborating and providing the citation - very interesting paper indeed. "This is absolutely not true" was not a charitable/informed interpretation of your comment, my apologies. > So we didn’t promote the “invention” of AR by bacteria, but likely just accelerated the selection of AR strains Well put, we are in agreement.