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Re:Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resista... by pulisse on Monday September 23, 2019 @11:38AM (#21049910)
> Resistance to antibiotics would take us back to 1900, not to the brink of annihilation.

You can't assume that the virulence of bacteria with evolved antibiotic resistance will be like that of the strains that existed in 1900.

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Re:Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resista... by maxerickson on Monday September 23, 2019 @11:39AM (#21049926)
There's plenty of evidence at this point, it isn't an assumption.
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Re:Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resista... by Enginerrrd on Monday September 23, 2019 @06:35PM (#21054499)
Not so! MRSA has shown increased virulence as it has become more antibiotic resistant.
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Re:Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resista... by saiya-jin on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:34PM (#21051242)
resistance to atb come and go, if there is no pressure to have defense then its abandoned over not so many generations
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Re:Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resista... by Fomite on Monday September 23, 2019 @07:55PM (#21055059)
Not necessarily. It depends on what's hanging out on the same plasmid as the resistance gene, and if that confers an advantage.
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