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Can you tell me how antibiotic resistance has evolved?
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Antibiotic resistanc: Antibiotic resistance has evolved because of overuse of antibiotics for viral infection which do not respond to antibiotics.. Also some bugs can mutate and become drug resistant
Answered 7/6/2014
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