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by JunkDNA 4574 days ago
Well the problem is that a lot of antibiotic resistance can be attributed to efflux pumps that literally pump the stuff out of the bacteria. So these are generalized resistance mechanisms that target a broad array of environmental stuff that might ordinarily kill a microbe. Here's a pretty well-cited paper on the issue, though it's rather old: http://aac.asm.org/content/45/2/428.short