how does not finishing a course of antibiotics cause antibiotic resistance?
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100 little germs dancing around in your belly having a great time making you sick.
First dose of medicine manages to make contact with about 50 of them, and kills the weakest 10, so 90 germs left
This happens again and again. Pretty soon the only ones that are left are the absolute strongest, who need to get hit again and again to be killed.
If you stop early, then the 10 or so germs who are left alive are all the ones who are the absolute strongest resistors. And when they make babies, those babies are going to be really strong resisters.
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