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banana_pirate t1_iw4on3c wrote

Fun thing is that developing resistance against viruses and chemicals are some what opposed to each other.

As such you notice that bacteria resistant to antibiotics become more vulnerable to antibiotics as they become more resistant to viruses.

It likely has to do with antibiotic resistance often using a mechanism that pumps the drug out of the cell, whereas virus resistance requires not presenting proteins on their surface. The pumps are proteins, so you can't have both.

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