Submitted by champdecap t3_ydy6jn in askscience
PlaidBastard t1_itvbkst wrote
Reply to comment by rdrunner_74 in How is a person who has built up resistance to antibiotics treated? by champdecap
It's like having a house infested with ants that ant-poison won't kill anymore because you haphazardly used several kinds sequentially over time without successfully killing all of the ants ever, resulting in resistance to a variety of pesticides and unique behavioral responses to past agents, versus a house that ant poison has stopped functioning inside of. You've created a 'special ants' problem, not a 'special house' problem.
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