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What do you think is the most likely reason for the development of drug resistance?
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Drug resistance: The over prescribing of antibiotics.
Answered 7/5/2012
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See below: Unnecessary antibiotic use in animal husbandry. Unnecessary antibiotic use in treating viral infections. Unnecessary antibiotic use in hospitalized patients without bacterial infections. Bacteria must survive in a toxic competitive world and have developed adaptive techniques which include the ability to acquire resistance plasmids or mutations to survive exposure to toxic chemicals.
Answered 10/4/2016
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