Antibiotic resistance in microbial populations rapidly occur
Antibiotic resistance in microbial populations rapidly occurs because of selection for resistant populations. Since antibiotics are naturally produced by soil microbes all the time, why aren’t all bacteria already resistant to all antibiotics? What implications does this have for the clinical use of antibiotics?
Solution
All bacteria are not resistant to all antibiotics because bacteria mutliples at a very fast rate.The mutant bacterial stains make the bacteria so big that are uncontrollable in small doses of antibiotics.
The implications is to develop antibiotics for every stage of bacteria so that the right dose can attack the bacteria(depending on how much it has multiplied).This will kill the bacteria at any level saving patients.
