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Please answer! what makes some bacteria resistant to antibiotics when other bacteria are not?
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Various reasons: Some bacteria are resistant because they do not have the correct target for the drug to work, others are resistant because they produce an enzyme that inactivates the drug.
Answered 5/26/2015
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