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How our immune system helps us fight antibiotic resistance – The Conversation UK
Observing the progression of an infection in real-time allows us to better understand how antibiotic resistance develops.
While our immune system and antibiotics both do a great job of helping us fight life-threatening infections, the emergence of antibiotic resistance is quickly making it more difficult to cure common infections that were once easily treated. Antibiotic resistance happens when bacteria evolve and survive the treatments designed to eliminate them and then reproduce or pass this resistance on to other bacteria.
Plenty of research is currently taking place to find ways of preventing the spread of antibiotic…
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