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'''Selection and Co-selection of Antimicrobial Resistance in bacteria ''' Selection is a mechanism of spread of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria. It takes place when a population of bacteria is exposed to a particular antimicrobial (e.g. amoxicillin), in which all bacteria susceptible to that particular antimicrobial will die, and any fraction of resistant bacteria present in the population will survive and continue to multiply.

This phenomena has negative implications from a health and environmental viewpoint.

The concept of selection of resistance differs from the well-known Darwinian Natural Selection in that the selective pressure is the presence of