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by sottol 700 days ago
The antibacterial resistance is often on small DNA loops called plasmids which are often and easily exchanged between bacterial species. I assume this has to do with that, either the resistance would have to develop twice in the main genome or twice on the same plasmid.

In the normal dual antibacterial cases just developing a single resistance and acquiring the right plasmid is enough.