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A bacterial species will BDGR → BEC inevitably develop greater resistance within a few years to any antibiotics used against it, unless those antibiotics eliminate that species completely.
However, no single NOM → BEC antibiotic now on the market is powerful enough to eliminate bacterial species X completely.
Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the statements above?
It is unlikely that any
The statements are about antibiotics now on the market, while this is about antibiotics that have not yet been developed.
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If any antibiotic now on
Why this is right
If the antibiotic is now NOM ? BEC on the market it will not completely eliminate bacterial species X, which implies that species will develop a greater resistance to that antibiotic within a few years.
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The only way of completely
The contrapositive of the BEC ? NOM second statements suggests that if something is strong enough to completely eliminate bacterial species X, it is not a single antibiotic now on the market. But that doesn’t mean that such a measure is two or more antibiotics now on the market. It’s possible that the solution is a single antibiotic not currently on the market.
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Bacterial species X will inevitably
It’s possible that a solution already exists that combines several antibiotics now on the market or will exist in the future that includes some new antibiotic not currently on the market.
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Bacterial species X is more
This requires assuming that at least some antibiotics have already been used against bacterials species X.
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