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Well 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 genera
by JunkDNA 13y ago
Well 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