HETERORESISTANCE TO BETA-LACTAM ANTIBIOTICS MAY OFTEN BE A STAGE IN THE PROGRESSION TO ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE.

Antibiotic resistance is a growing crisis that threatens many aspects of modern healthcare.Dogma is that resistance often develops due to acquisition of a resistance gene or mutation and that when this occurs, all the cells in the female galaxy skin bacterial population are phenotypically resistant.In contrast, heteroresistance (HR) is a form of an