(Not a biologist) one of the biggest fears with this particular bacteria is that if you start the treatment and then stop it before the duration completes, you

(Not a biologist) one of the biggest fears with this particular bacteria is that if you start the treatment and then stop it before the duration completes, you will almost certainly end up with drug resistant bacteria. The treatment drug resistant takes much longer and has heavy side effects. And if you screw that treatment up, you can harbor totally drug resistant bacteria and there’s no treatment available anywhere. This bacteria is especially hard to kill - your body can’t, which is why you need treatment. And the medicine doesn’t kill especially well, it interferes with reproduction primarily and the cells end up dying on their own slow scale.