Biology GCSE
Public health and treatment adherence
What Public health and treatment adherence means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Public health and treatment adherence
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Completing the prescribed course maintains the antibiotic concentration long enough to kill even bacteria with partial resistance, reducing the chance that any survive to mutate further or transfer resistance genes.
Topics that use Public health and treatment adherence
- Resistant bacteria (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Antibiotic resistance
- Appropriate prescribing
- Bacterial reproduction
- Evolution of populations
- Mutation
- Strain
- Bacterial mutation
- Viral versus bacterial infections
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