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Q: Why should we finish antibiotic treatments in order to prevent antibiotics resistance?

Sebastiaan van den BroekI understand bacteria can mutate and develop resistance against antibiotics, but I do not understand how finishing an antibiotics treatment prevents this. In my simple thought process, when an individual bacterium has a mutation with antibiotics resistance, the antibiotics do not work on it. So w...

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