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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The acquisition of enzymes that inactivate antibiotics directly is one of the first mechanisms of resistance identified in bacteria and is a strategy that bacteria use successfully to survive the action of many classes of antibiotics.Several of the best-studied classic examples are the enzymes that mediate hydrolysis of the b-lactam ring of b-lactam antibiotics.

What Is One of the First Resistance Mechanisms Identified and Is