Antibiotic resistance lingers long after the meds are finished

Posted May 6, 2025

If you are lucky enough to have had regular medical care in the United States, odds are good that, at some point, you’ve taken antibiotics. Maybe you had strep throat, pink eye, an infected cut, or another of the range of bacterial infections that antibiotics can stamp out. Or perhaps yours was one of the full 25% of antibiotic prescriptions inappropriately given to fight a viral infection. Either way, you likely took the course of medication within a couple weeks, got better, and moved on. But new research reveals that your normal gut bacteria may not have moved on as quickly …

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