| If you do a quick google search for “human resistance to antibiotics” you’ll find a number of good results. Any evidence I would cite would be from the more reputable sources, such as government agency websites, wiki, known scientific publications. https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=human+resistance+to+a... While I’m not a trained professional in that area to debate the specific mechanisms, I am sufficiently informed from sufficiently reliable sources about the topic. As an example, this report from the US National Institute of Medicine titled “The Antibiotic Resistance Crisis” seems to strengthen the case the article linked by the OP of this thread is making. To quote selectively from the aforementioned report, "The overuse of antibiotics clearly drives the evolution of resistance. Epidemiological studies have demonstrated a direct relationship between antibiotic consumption and the emergence and dissemination of resistant bacteria strains. In bacteria, genes can be inherited from relatives or can be acquired from nonrelatives on mobile genetic elements such as plasmids. This horizontal gene transfer (HGT) can allow antibiotic resistance to be transferred among different species of bacteria. Resistance can also occur spontaneously through mutation. Antibiotics remove drug-sensitive competitors, leaving resistant bacteria behind to reproduce as a result of natural selection. Despite warnings regarding overuse, antibiotics are overprescribed worldwide" “Incorrectly prescribed antibiotics also contribute to the promotion of resistant bacteria” "More recently, molecular detection methods have demonstrated that resistant bacteria in farm animals reach consumers through meat products. This occurs through the following sequence of events: 1) antibiotic use in food-producing animals kills or suppresses susceptible bacteria, allowing antibiotic-resistant bacteria to thrive; 2) resistant bacteria are transmitted to humans through the food supply; 3) these bacteria can cause infections in humans that may lead to adverse health consequences." Should you wish to debate the technicalities of the topic further, I can only suggest waiting for a trained microbiologist to show up in this thread, or getting in touch with the authors of the aforementioned report and the various references linked therein (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378521/) |