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Medicine

Molecular Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance

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Many resistance genes move between bacteria on mobile pieces of DNA called plasmids, so a bacterium can gain resistance to multiple antibiotics at once without ever being exposed to them.

Why this is interesting

We rely on antibiotics to stop deadly infections, yet bacteria outsmart them at the molecular level—how exactly do these tiny cells defeat our most powerful drugs?