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What are antibiotic resistant bacteria?

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Archaeocins and other bacteria that have genes that are resistant to a certain type of antibiotic (such as penicillin,oxacillin and others)

An example is a penicillin resistant pneumonia bacteria, caused by the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae.

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