https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1007218
What this says is that in the normal human environment of US civilization convergent evolution is driving common human-associated bacteria,
even those who are as yet only infrequent pathogens, i.e. not being targeted with antibiotics,
to evolve mechanisms of antibiotic resistance which have no apparent vulnerability associated with them. They do not decrease fitness in any known way.
They are not self...
Another warning, to the US, about the risks of Republican Party scientific policy
What this says is that in the normal human environment of US civilization convergent evolution is driving common human-associated bacteria,
even those who are as yet only infrequent pathogens, i.e. not being targeted with antibiotics,
to evolve mechanisms of antibiotic resistance which have no apparent vulnerability associated with them. They do not decrease fitness in any known way.
They are not self...
Another warning, to the US, about the risks of Republican Party scientific policy