A person is prescribed antibiotics for a bacterial infection.After taking the drug for a few days the person stops taking the drug.Two weeks later the person develops the same infection.This time the bacterial isolate is resistant to the antibiotic.What type of resistance,mutational or acquired has occurred,and why?
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