We all know that bacteria became resistant to antibiotic with frequent use of antibiotics, my question, Why bacteria can not become resistant to disinfectants in the same mechanism of antibiotics resistances?
In fact, microorganisms can acquire resistance/ tolerance to antimicrobials other than antibiotics, including alcohol.
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Increasing the tolerance of microorganisms to alohol can be also achieved by bioengineering and this has an application, for example, in increasing the efficiency of production of compounds whose final/ intermediate product is bioethanol.
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