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If some bacteria are resistant to tetracycline and some are not resistant, what happens when a patient is given tetracycline for an infection?

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Antibiotic resistance happens when germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. That means the germs are not killed and continue to grow. Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant germs are difficult, and sometimes impossible, to treat.

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