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It's not completely clear how the antibiotic works so it's too early to tell how plasmids could counter it. But some mechanisms of antibiotic resistance are re
by jakobnissen 4y ago
It's not completely clear how the antibiotic works so it's too early to tell how plasmids could counter it.
But some mechanisms of antibiotic resistance are relatively unspecific, such as multidrug efflux pumps.
Another mechanism could be that it arises de novo in some other bacteria, then spreads on a plasmid. In that case, resistance could happen from a very low probability event that only needs to happen in one bacteria, once, worldwide.