There is a great deal of talk about overuse of antibiotics in general. Even lowly general practitioners at walk-in clinics now mouth the mantra. But any use of antibiotics that is clinically effective eventually selects for resistant mutations. The only way to prevent this is to stop using the antibiotic. The correct strategy is to have a large array of antibiotics, some of which are held back. Older ones, like penicillin, should be removed from the market until the mutants die off, which they will.

Acinetobacter kills bacteria so they can’t give Acinetobacter plasmids. The plasmids, which we can’t give to acinetobacter, stop acinetobacter from killing the host before it’s close enough to give acinetobacter the plasmids.

We adjusted the plasmid we can’t give to acinetobactter to stop it from killing the host it can’t receive it from, so now it’s killing the host it was already killing.

Remember, Higgs bosons are responsible for mass per se, and science journalists are responsible for crimes against science.