Some antibiotics fail to kill/inhibit a pathogen simply because the microbe is naturally (intrinsically) resistant to it.   True or False ?

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Some antibiotics fail to kill/inhibit a pathogen simply because the microbe is naturally (intrinsically) resistant to it.

 

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