Match each scenario with the most appropriate resistance mechanism
A bacterial strain resists an antibiotic by chemically modifying the antibiotic molecule itself, making it incapable of binding to its target.
Despite treatment, the bacteria continue to survive because they have altered the enzyme that the antibiotic was designed to inhibit, making the drug ineffective.
The bacteria continue to thrive because they have found an alternative route to synthesize an essential nutrient that the antibiotic was designed to block.
Bacteria resist antibiotics by reducing the size and number of porins in their outer membrane, limiting drug entry into the cell.
A bacterial infection persists because the bacteria are pumping the antibiotic out of the cell before it can accumulate to toxic levels inside.
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Increased growth rate
Debris shedding
Target modification
Altering drug structure
Decreased permeability
Alternative metabolic pathway
Efflux pump
Immune evasion
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