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Is there any evidence for this? Generally speaking, one would expect biocide resistant bacteria to be less antibiotic resistant.
by jcampbell1 13y ago
Is there any evidence for this? Generally speaking, one would expect biocide resistant bacteria to be less antibiotic resistant.
- astrobe_ 13y agoI'm not a biologist, but I would assume that bactericides for external use can be much more aggressive than antibiotics that are injected in the organism; they are expected not to kill the patient altogether the bacteria.
- raverbashing 13y agoBiocide resistance is also a problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiseptic#Evolved_resistance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiseptic#Evolved_resistance I'm not sure if there's a relation of resistance between biocides and antibiotics
- JunkDNA 13y agoWell the problem is that a lot of antibiotic resistance can be attributed to efflux pumps that literally pump the stuff out of the bacteria. So these are generalized resistance mechanisms that target a broad array of environmental stuff that might ordinarily kill a microbe. Here's a pretty well-cited paper on the issue, though it's rather old: http://aac.asm.org/content/45/2/428.short http://aac.asm.org/content/45/2/428.short