how does not finishing a course of antibiotics cause antibiotic resistance?
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I used to explain it to my patients like this- not finishing a course of antibiotics is like giving the strain of bacteria causing the infection weights to work out with. The next time it infects you, it will be bigger and stronger.
You want to take all of those antibiotics to make sure the wimp microbe is dead. If you just let it go, it breeds and becomes an army of Arnold Schwarzenegger microbes.
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