Not sure why you’re being downvoted, from a cursory search it looks like your claims are supported by the literature. The hivemind knows better, I guess.
From the article:
A practical approach in the community setting is to educate patients and advise them that it is safe to cease the antibiotics early if microbiological results exclude a bacterial cause for their symptoms (e.g. negative urine culture or viral acute respiratory infection), or the patient feels better for conditions where the benefit of antibiotics is small and the infection is not severe (e.g. acute respiratory infections).
I imagine it’s from past information that had been communicated on this topic (as the original poster alluded to), it very much was the general understanding that it is important to take the full course for the reasons mentioned, however I am not too surprised that it appears that is not the case, logically the initial claim didn’t make sense, but I figured that was because I’m not into biology much. Interesting to see the counter argument which makes much more logical sense to me.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, from a cursory search it looks like your claims are supported by the literature. The hivemind knows better, I guess.
From the article:
I imagine it’s from past information that had been communicated on this topic (as the original poster alluded to), it very much was the general understanding that it is important to take the full course for the reasons mentioned, however I am not too surprised that it appears that is not the case, logically the initial claim didn’t make sense, but I figured that was because I’m not into biology much. Interesting to see the counter argument which makes much more logical sense to me.