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Re:Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa with Routine Antibio... by PeterStuer on Friday April 27, 2018 @08:46AM (#16940358)
That is not how it work. Resistant strains, once evolved, do not need to 'start from scratch'.
Re:Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa with Routine Antibio... by travisp on Friday April 27, 2018 @08:59AM (#16940449)
It's much more complicated than you seem to think, otherwise there would be almost no non-resistant strains left.

For example, there typically seems to be a cost associated with maintaining resistance, and particularly maintaining multiple forms of resistance, and strains will often drop resistance absent constant selection pressure.

Re:Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa with Routine Antibio... by mmierz on Friday April 27, 2018 @02:09PM (#16942885)
Adding onto this, I saw a very interesting seminar a few years ago from a biologist who sequenced bacterial samples from the arctic permafrost. He found resistance genes for antibiotics that had definitely not been created by humans at the time that the samples were deposited.

So "new" antibiotics aren't actually new, and resistance to them probably already exists somewhere -- bacteria have been fighting this war for as long as there have been bacteria.