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Worth noting: the bacteria at the end are not the same as the bacteria at the start.

Antibiotic acts on a particular mechanism to kill the bacteria. In order to overcome an antibiotic threat, bacteria have to either modify or drop any functions associated with that mechanism.

If any of those functions help them to infect humans, then the bacteria at the end of the process will be generally less able to infect humans.



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