Combined Science GCSE
Antibiotic stewardship and patient adherence
What Antibiotic stewardship and patient adherence means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Antibiotic stewardship and patient adherence
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Patients should follow the prescribed dose, interval and duration rather than stopping when symptoms improve, so all bacteria are killed and none survive to mutate and form resistant strains.
Topics that use Antibiotic stewardship and patient adherence
- Resistant bacteria (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Antibiotic development
- Antibiotic resistance
- Asexual reproduction by binary fission
- Bacterial reproduction by binary fission
- Infection prevention
- Mutation and variation
- Natural selection
- Natural selection and evolution of resistance
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