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Why you may not need all those days of antibiotics

  • Written by Brad Spellberg, Chief Medical Officer, Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, University of Southern California
imageGreen colonies of allergenic fungus Penicillium from air spores on a petri dish. Penicillin was the first antibiotic. Satirus/Shutterstock.com

A recent article in the British Medical Journal set off a bit of a firestorm with its claim that “the antibiotic course has had its day.” The authors challenged the very widespread belief that...

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