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Introducing antimicrobial resistance
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Figure 28 Natural selection for antibiotic resistance. When susceptible bacteria, shown in blue, are treated with antibiotics they all die. However, antibiotic-resistant bacteria (shown in green) survive and replicate by binary fission. This new bacterial population is now completely non-susceptible to treatment with the same antibiotic.
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