why should you always finish a course of antibiotics even if the infection has cleared up
In: Biology
The symptoms may have cleared up, but there still may be bacteria in your body. These bacteria have been exposed to the antibiotic, which means they could continue to replicate and evolve resistance to those antibiotics. This is how we get antibiotic resistant bacteria.
These resistant bacteria can then spread to other people. This is a bad thing.
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