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Explain, using the illustrations on page 155 of your text, whypenicillin, once a widely used and effective antibiotic, is now nolonger effective against penicillin-resistant bacteria.

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Antibiotics such as penicillin have been key to the decline of infectious diseases over the last 60 years but bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to existing drugs Antibiotic resistance occurs when an antibiotic has lost its ability to effectively control or kill bacterial growth in other words the bacteria are resistant and continue to multiply in the    See Answer
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