How antibiotics spread resistance without creating mutations

Antibiotics do not have to create resistance to spread it

A resistance mutation can appear by chance before an antibiotic is used. The antibiotic then kills bacteria that are easy to kill while resistant ones survive and reproduce. The drug can therefore make resistance common without having caused the original mutation.

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