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'Always Finish Your Antibiotics' Is Not Always Best Practice. Surprised? You're Not Alone

Add ScienceAlert on Google This medical mantra may have been too successful.

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Add ScienceAlert on Google This medical mantra may have been too successful. (Tanja Ivanova/Getty Images) You've probably heard that taking a full course of antibiotics is essential for clearing bacterial infections and preventing antibiotic resistance. That advice has been around ever since the discovery of penicillin in the 1940s.

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