Saturday, April 24, 2010

Do bacteria develop resistance on disinfectants like they do in antibiotics?how?

Generally speaking, no. They do NOT develop any type of resistance to disinfectants. Resistance to antibiotics has a specific genetic basis, and usually only requires one genetic change.





Disinfectants are much more broad in their attack on bacteria, such as denaturing the outer membrane, or inactivating all proteins, etc. A single, or even several, genetic changes are not enough to make a bacterium resistant, they would need wholesale evolutionary changes to their anatomy, and that takes millions of years.





So, no, they don't become resistant.

Do bacteria develop resistance on disinfectants like they do in antibiotics?how?
yes like with antibotics u can take them so much ur body builds resistance to them and if u keep getting the same bacteria there is a reason


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