According to the video "The antibiotic apocalypse

Last updated: 7/25/2022

According to the video "The antibiotic apocalypse explained", what caused an increased bacterial resistance to the antibiotic colistin in China? Colistin was an OTC (over-the-counter) medicine and people abused its use Farmers were treating animals with colistin to prevent infections and this bad practice generated bacterial strains resistant to this antibiotic that were passed to humans Colistin was treated to treat all the infectious diseases in China and after a while all the bacteria became resistant it is unknown