Resumen de Is it really OK to stop taking antibiotics early?
Insights about prescribing a short courses of antibiotics when treating bacterial infections. Wherein evidence suggests that short courses of antibiotics can be just as effective at killing bacteria as longer ones and they don't increase the risk of antibiotic resistance, at least for the common infections that most people receive antibiotics for. While the longer courses of antibiotics will have the possibility of developing antibiotic-resistant infections according from the 2010 analysis. Also noted the views of Martin Llewelyn at Brighton and Sussex Medical School that antibiotics are often prescribed in multiples of five or seven days, probably because these numbers correspond to the number of fingers on a hand and the number of days in a week, but there's no medical basis
