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Explain the reason why the imprudent and excessive use of antibiotics has resulted in a major global problem.
Antibiotics kill bacteria that are sensitive to them; thus, only the resistant ones will survive. These resistant bacteria will reproduce, and therefore, after a while, there will be only resistant bacteria.
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