Long courses, confusion and culture: why we're losing the fight against antibiotic resistance
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
We often don’t know exactly how long is necessary to treat many infections.funnyangel/ShutterstockDoctors often tell patients to take a “course” of antibiotics, because a partially treated infection may result in relapse with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But where does this advice come from?
As Lyn Gilbert has pointed out on The...








