Multiple Choice
What is one of the first resistance mechanisms identified and is a strategy that bacteria use successfully to survive the action of many classes of antibiotics?
A) Frameshift mutation
B) Plasmid DNA acquisition
C) Acquisition of inactivating enzymes
D) Impermeability to the cell wall
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