Understanding antibiotic resistance
2 Horizontal transfer
Horizontal gene transfer, or horizontal transfer, is the primary mechanism of spread of antibiotic resistance that allows bacteria to spread antibiotic resistance genes rapidly between different bacterial types. As you should be starting to appreciate, the acquisition of antibiotic resistance by new bacterial types is particularly concerning because it can result in multidrug-resistant bacterial strains such as MRSA.
Figure 4 Antibiotic resistance.
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