Microbes slowed by one drug can rapidly develop resistance to another
The finding could lead to better ways to prescribe drug cocktails to knock out infections
![MRSA bacteria](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/010920_ti_mrsa_feat.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
Being tolerant to at least one type of antibiotic helps deadly methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, bacteria (yellow in this scanning electron micrograph) more easily develop resistance to another antibiotic.
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