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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acinetobacter_baumannii#Antibiotic_resistance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acinetobacter_baumannii#Antibi... 3 pathways to antibi
by kylehotchkiss 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acinetobacter_baumannii#Antibiotic_resistance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acinetobacter_baumannii#Antibi... 3 pathways to antibiotic resistance... nice. These are clever bacterium.
TIL "Efflux pumps are protein machines that use energy to pump antibiotics and other small molecules that get into the bacterial cytoplasm and the periplasmic space out of the cell." They even have their own bilge pumps!