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For every irresponsible doctor or human patient not completing a course,

What’s crazy is that completing a course of bacteria or not isn’t even really known if it’s causing the arms race like at all. Like most science, we’re still trying to really pin things down well but there has been some amount of research suggesting it’s not nearly as big a deal as we thought.

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it can be a big deal on an individual level because if you dont get the bacteria thats fucking you up with the first antibiotic it comes back hard and likes to be resistant

i had a resistant infection i needed a 10 day course of iv antibiotics for and it sucked

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I was reading some research a year ago that was like, 5-day course of antibiotics are just as effective as 10-day for some bacterial infections (can’t recall the specifics).

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