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Ways of Acquiring Resistance

Ways of Acquiring Resistance

Bacteria adopt all possible ways to survive when exposed to drugs.
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Ways of Acquiring Resistance

Bacteria adopt all possible ways to survive when exposed to drugs.

Ways of Acquiring Resistance


Bacteria adopt all possible ways to survive when exposed to drugs. Depending upon type of bacteria (gram positive/ gram negative) the approaches vary. The most common of these in general include:

    Not permitting drug to enter

  • Either by closing porin channels
  • My making alteration in outer membrane proteins to reduce permemability
  • By secreting extracellular enzymes to deactivate the drug
  • By secreting intracellular enzymes for deactivation of drug

  • Extended spectrum beta lactamases secretion
  • Aminoglycoside modifying enzyme secretion
  • Efflux the drug out of bacterial cell

    By making biofilms formation (when single bacteria or a small population is under threat they colonize and form protective layer around them, called biofilm)

    By altering the binding sites of drug

    By transferring resistant genetic material to neighboring non-resistant microbes