Drug Resistance- How Bugs Adapt!

We know bugs adapt to resist drugs. How do they do it? We help them, really. Incomplete dose regimen, self prescription and indiscriminate disposals let them develop resistance. One of the ways by which antibiotics work is by inducing heavy metal (such as silver, copper, manganese etc) toxicity. So bacteria have developed methods to eliminate heavy metals. They have special pumps called efflux pumps, that are made up of proteins. read more

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