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This prevents production of more resistant strains, but we already have resistant strains out there. (Also, @pearjuice seemed to indirectly imply that the abili

by pyre 13y ago

This prevents production of more resistant strains, but we already have resistant strains out there. (Also, @pearjuice seemed to indirectly imply that the ability to improve our existing antibiotics was a bad thing)

learc83 13y ago
>but we already have resistant strains out there. But those resistant strains will be outcompeted by non-resistant strains without the presence of anti-biotics. There is a fitness cost to most resistance mechanisms [1] [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20208551 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20208551