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I was wondering if resistant bacterial strain would drop resistances against one antibiotic if we stop using it for long enough. Maintaining a resistance comes
by kubiiii 13y ago
I was wondering if resistant bacterial strain would drop resistances against one antibiotic if we stop using it for long enough. Maintaining a resistance comes at a cost for a living organism (synthesizing an enzyme), so the bacteria that would drop it would be promoted.
- roc 13y agoIt seems like a plausible approach, if you could coordinate antibiotic use. But if we were capable of coordinating antibiotic use, we could correct the practices that got us to this point in the first place.