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Re:New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found i... by hinkley on Friday April 04, 2025 @02:24PM (#43586053)
This is why we use “cocktails” on resistant cases now.

Kill it three different ways at once and it cannot adapt fast enough to leave dna fragments for the next microbe to pick up and continue the work.

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Re:New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found i... by lolinder on Friday April 04, 2025 @07:02PM (#43588656)
Just as long as we don't start overusing the cocktail. Natural selection is a very powerful force, all it takes is one bacterium in a million that has resistance to all three methods to start an evolution.
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