Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Microbiologist: A lethal strain of salmonella recently showed up in a

Situation: Antibiotic-resistant salmonella caused an outbreak of illness in a European country where patients need prescriptions to obtain antibiotics and where doctors dispense such prescriptions less readily than in other European countries

Reasoning: What evidence would most strongly suggest that overuse of antibiotics was likely responsible for the outbreak, despite the cited facts?

B is correct - Weakens the microbiologist's argument by indicating that an assumption implicit in the argument
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