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Which could result from a person who does not finish the prescribed amount of antibiotics for an infection?

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Ans. Antibiotic resistant bacteria.

If someone fails to complete the course of antibiotics for an infection, some of infection causing bacteria may survive (having a greater resistance for those antibiotics). It will lead to bacterial population in afflicted patient, with a higher resistance than normal ones.

When these resistant bacteria reproduce, infection caused by their progeny would not be treatable with same old antibiotics.

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