Cross-resistance
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cross-resistance-174-6564907
title:
Cross-resistance
text:
Cross-resistance is when something develops resistance to several substances that have a similar mechanism of action. For example, if a certain type of bacteria develops resistance to one antibiotic, that bacteria will also have resistance to several other antibiotics that target the same protein or use the same route to get into the bacterium. A real example of cross-resistance occurred for nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin, which are both quinolone antibiotics. When bacteria developed resistanc
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Chemicals stop working at the same time
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-resistance
date created:
2007-04-05T17:04:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T22:50:25Z
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