How does finishing the prescription ensure that all the bacteria is killed and that there are no surviving or remaining bacteria? Have always been told that finishing the prescription does this but never how
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Antibiotics can be “bacteriostatic” or “bactericidal”: “bacteriostatic” means that it prevents the growth of bacteria. bactericidal means it kills the bacteria.
In human cyanide would be human-cidal and withholding water would be human-static. If you wanted to get rid of that pesky human infection, you’d need to withhold water for the entire prescribed treatment schedule. If you stopped the treatment and gave water, the survivors would be just fine.
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