Re:When antibiotics failed a severely ill patient, a virus s...
by tgb on Thursday December 08, 2016 @01:58PM
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Interesting, thanks. Is there an explanation of why?
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Re:When antibiotics failed a severely ill patient, a virus s...
by arrosenberg on Thursday December 08, 2016 @05:25PM
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Broadly speaking, most viruses have no mechanism to control mutations other than becoming inactive/nonfunctional. Some bacteria are also like this, in that they can tolerate a high mutation rate without going extinct, while other bacteria have rudimentary control mechanisms that slow their mutation rate in favor of higher survivability and specialization.
Re:When antibiotics failed a severely ill patient, a virus s...
by danieltillett on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:50PM
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The rate of evolution is proportional to the population size. For every bacteria there are around 10 phages.