Drug Resistant Bacteria – Part 2 (CT Scan, Episode 35)

Textbooks often call antibiotic-resistant bacteria prime “evidence for evolution.” Based on a real textbook example, let’s use Critical Thinking Check #6 to look at what’s really going on in the observational science of bacteria resistance. There’s a lot more to the story than what many textbooks say!

DIGGING DEEPER
• Is Antibiotic Resistance Proof of Evolution? https://answersingenesis.org/natural-selection/antibiotic-resistance/is-antibiotic-resistance-proof-of-evolution/ (Chapter section from Gillen, A. L. (2007). The genesis of germs: the origin of diseases and the coming plagues. New leaf publishing group.)
• Antibiotic resistance articles: https://answersingenesis.org/natural-selection/antibiotic-resistance/
• Natural selection articles: https://answersingenesis.org/natural-selection/
• Mutation articles: https://answersingenesis.org/genetics/mutations/
• Gillen, A. (2009). The genesis of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A modern day “leprosy” and hospital menace. https://answersingenesis.org/natural-selection/antibiotic-resistance/the-genesis-of-methicillin-resistant-staphylococcus-aureus/
• Anderson, K (2005). Is bacterial resistance to antibiotics an appropriate example of evolutionary change? Creation Research Society Quarterly, 41(4), 318-326. https://www.trueorigin.org/bacteria01.php (Recommended in Patterson, R. (2006). Evolution Exposed: Biology. Answers in Genesis. Full book available to read online for free.)

CITED REFERENCES
• Reece et al. (2012). Descent with Modification: A Darwinian View of Life. In G. Bennett, L. Rahn, D. Kamo, E. Bush, & S. Bindernagel (Eds.), Campbell biology (Canadian ed., pp 493-494). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
• Perry, J., Waglechner, N., & Wright, G. (2016). The prehistory of antibiotic resistance. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 6(6), a025197.
• Pinho, M. G., de Lencastre, H., & Tomasz, A. (2001). An acquired and a native penicillin-binding protein cooperate in building the cell wall of drug-resistant staphylococci. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(19), 10886-10891.
• Rolo, J. et al. (2017). Evidence for the evolutionary steps leading to mecA-mediated β-lactam resistance in staphylococci. PLoS genetics, 13(4), e1006674.
• Stapleton, P. D., & Taylor, P. W. (2002). Methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: mechanisms and modulation. Science progress, 85(1), 57-72.

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