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Bacteria Can Be Resistant to Brand-New Antibiotics

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Discovery of Earlier Antibiotic's Role in Methicillin Resistance in MRSA Bacteria

The chapter explores how MRSA developed resistance to methicillin from penicillin, which was introduced earlier. It discusses a study that analyzed MRSA genomes from the 1960s to the 80s and found that the methicillin-resistance gene was acquired before the introduction of methicillin.

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