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by mikeiz404 1272 days ago
Edit: Apparently broad spectrum antibiotics can actually lead to antimicrobial resistance [1][2]

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> I actually think this is good since it means we postpone usage of, and thereby resistance to, any new antibiotics.

This is true if you use them in isolation but I thought broad spectrum antibiotics, aka many at once, is what is typical now to slow down development of resistance? In this case you’d want to develop a few new ones and deploy them in batch.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-spectrum_antibiotic

2: https://www.science.org/content/article/combining-antibiotic...