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I stopped taking my antibiotics early. how bad is this?
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Cessation: Cessation of antibiotic therapy before the recommended treatment course can lead to incomplete treatment of the specific condition as well as to adding to the increasing antibiotic resistance dilemma in medicine.
Answered 3/23/2014
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