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To: Ben Mugged

Once again, the bacteria are not mutating. It is just that the stronger strains have always been resistant to drugs but previously were so tiny in numbers (and possibly could not as easily compete for food as well as other strains) that our immune system could deal with them. Now, the weaker strains that were vunerable to the antibiotics are all gone and the drug resistant strains are all that is left.


3 posted on 01/10/2006 10:10:05 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Speculation or fact?


6 posted on 01/10/2006 10:15:32 AM PST by Ben Mugged (Unions are the stormtroopers of socialism)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Even in a genetically similar population, mutations occur and after many generations, the genetic profile of the bacteria has changed. The resistance to antibiotics is specifically from mutations that have been selected for by our use of antibiotics.


10 posted on 01/10/2006 10:28:01 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
It is just that the stronger strains have always been resistant to drugs but previously were so tiny in numbers (and possibly could not as easily compete for food as well as other strains) that our immune system could deal with them. Now, the weaker strains that were vunerable to the antibiotics are all gone and the drug resistant strains are all that is left.

IOW, the weaker strains are now stronger?

Have they evolved so that our immune systems can no longer take care of them?

16 posted on 01/10/2006 10:37:50 AM PST by null and void (Coffee, little girl???)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Can you say "they are evolving"?

E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N.

Their DNA is a combination of the DNA from multiple ancestor bacteria. The DNA has recombined, it has mutated, it has diverged and been selected for and it has evolved.

They sequence these genomes. It's on paper. It is irrefutable. It follows common sense. It is scientific. It is fact. It is evolution.


18 posted on 01/10/2006 10:42:29 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Once again, the bacteria are not mutating. It is just that the stronger strains have always been resistant to drugs

Explain how this happens when an experiment starts with a single bacterium. Duh.

31 posted on 01/10/2006 12:38:23 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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