Antimicrobial Resistance and Implications

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The resistance of a microorganism to an antimicrobial drug that was once able to treat it is known as antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial resistance also develops through the natural resistance in certain bacteria, genetic mutation or one species can acquire resistance from another species. Antibiotic resistance is a subset of antimicrobial resistance which is related to pathogenic bacteria. It is sub-divided into microbiological and clinical resistance. The microbiologically linked resistance occurs from genes that enable the bacteria to resist the mechanism associated with certain antibi...

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