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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To be mathematically precise. Finishing a course will not necessarily get every last bacteria. But there are really huge differences between 90%, 99%, 99.9%, 99.99%, and 99.999%. It is much better for oneself and everyone else that one gets as close to 100% as one can get by finishing the full course.
ETA: There is also a large difference in killing most but leaving enough bacteria to survive and grow and killing so many that there are too few to thrive and replicate.
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