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Is It Possible to Stop Antibiotics and Your Infection Comes Back?
When we have hardware infections and younger patients, it's obviously not feasible to have them on antibiotics forever. The duration of therapy would be different if they did have TB or a fungal infection. If I have the data to tell them what I think the chances are of their infection coming back, I will share that with them. For prosthetic joint infections, for example, we can often say like, well, typically people treated with a two-stage exchange of our work Or whatever.