Yes, that's the key part.
Physiologically it's well known that that the antibacterial peptides are part of the immune system. They were discovered as a part of the pathogen defense mechanisms of insects, found to be present also in vertebrates as well and only then, of course, exploited for chemical mimicry as pharmaca.
How anybody could believe taking that component out from the rest of the defense system, and breed pathogen resistance against it in isolation, could be anything but begging for calamity is beyond me. It boggles the mind that this has been permitted to go on, but particularly unexpected it is not at all, sadly.