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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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