Comment by swat_08 on 27/07/2022 at 16:02 UTC

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View submission: Being that antibiotics are derived from fungal mold, would fungi in general be susceptible to antibiotic resistant bacteria?

Basically, some bacterias do secrete antibiotics/bacteriostatic/bactericidal enzymes that inhibit the growth or kill the other rival bacteria, so that bacteriocidal/bacteriostatic enzyme could be used to kill/control the group of bacterias it is effective against, and yes we can get antibiotics from bacterias too not necessarily from fungi only. Further, I would like to add what u/CrateDane said *They're not often in competition with molds, so there's not much threat that way.* I totally agree with this reasoning. If you want to know more about bacterial resistance and how they acquire them horizontally and vertically do tell.

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Comment by DookieDemon at 27/07/2022 at 17:27 UTC

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Thank you for your insight. I shall do some more reading on this.

Biology is endlessly fascinating. The clever machinations of Nature over billions of years are so elaborate. The inventions of humans seem to largely derive from what we observe in nature, yet we often credit our own ingenuity. This hubris is to our detriment, hopefully it shall not be our complete downfall. Yet it may be so. We shall see!