This Is One of the First Resistance Mechanisms Identified and Is

question 38

Multiple Choice

This is one of the first resistance mechanisms identified and is a strategy that bacteria use successfully to survive the action of many classes of antibiotics.

• A) Frameshift mutation
• B) Plasmid DNA acquisition
• C) Acquisition of inactivating enzymes
• D) Impermeability to the cell wall

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