Antimicrobial Stewardship Flashcards
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Q
EXAM QUESTION: does antibiotic resistance happen because you put a person on an antibiotic and that organism just “pops” a mutation while they are on that antibiotic?
A
not very often (only with rifampin)
*almost all the time, you are selecting out the resistant bacteria within a pool and those then replicate
*giving more and different antibiotics selects out more and more antibiotic resistance
*HOW ANTIBIOTIC USE LEADS TO DRUG RESISTANCE
