You have found a bacterium it is uncharacteristically

Last updated: 2/15/2024

You have found a bacterium it is uncharacteristically resistant to the antibiotic methicillin It has a genetic signature similar to the genes that Staphylococcus aureus strains have when they are resistant to methicillin MRSA How could the use of a cell structure be a mechanism for this microbe population growing in a managed environment to acquire antibiotic resistance which is more common to microbes associated with human skin