Antibiotic Resistance

A topic within Microbiology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Biology.

Reading on Antibiotic Resistance

2 works

Paper2010

Origins and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance

Julian Davies & Dorothy Davies

Argues antibiotic resistance genes are ancient and widespread in the environment long before clinical antibiotic use, rather than something evolving from scratch each time a new drug is introduced.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

Biology · Microbiology

FreeIntermediate

Talk2015

Bacterial cell walls, antibiotics and the origins of life

The Royal Society

Explains that most antibiotics work by attacking cell-wall synthesis, a structure animals lack, and that resistance follows from how readily bacteria can alter that one pathway.