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Super Bug vs Colistin, who will prevail?

A single bacterial fever makes you restless, nauseatic, and tiresome. To cure ourselves of it, we use antibiotics. The purpose of antibiotics is to either kill the infecting bacteria or to prevent them from spreading. Once the antibiotic is taken in, it kills all the bacteria, that are less stronger than the antibiotics. Sometimes they also kill the helping bacteria like gut bacteria. Bacteria have one unique ability which is mutating and evolving according to their lifestyle. Whenever an antibiotic is used, a massive number of bacteria are killed, only a few survive and this survived bacteria develop themselves to be more resistant to the antibiotic over their period. This resistance takes place over evolution. It is that their offsprings are more resistant to antibiotics, not themselves. When again the same antibiotic is used, then it'll have no effect on them because they're now stronger. This way, bacteria evolve, beating antibiotics most of the times. Bacteria B...

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