how does not finishing a course of antibiotics cause antibiotic resistance?

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how does not finishing a course of antibiotics cause antibiotic resistance?

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You are breeding better bacteria.

The weak die in the first couple of days. The strong live. You stop taking antibiotics earlier than prescribed, you allow the strong to breed and repopulate. But this time with the strong resistant ones, not the weak ones that died. Some of the strong ones can develop to be super strong, meaning resistant.

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