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This is really cool! Antibiotics are often how microorganisms compete with each other. Instead of teeth and claws, bacteria and fungi in soils use excreted chemicals to fight each other. Isolating these excreted compounds could provide many new antibiotics to cure bacterial infections. But...

Triclosan is an antibiotic. Often, multiple antibiotic resistance genes are found on the same plasmid, which is a small, circular piece of DNA that allows bacteria to transfer genes amonst each other. This means that if a plasmid contains both a triclosan resistance gene AND a resistance gene...