Later, you could get or spread an infection that those antibiotics cannot cure.

I think antibiotics cure a lot more than we think.

Antibiotics do not cure viruses, and the common cold is a virus.

Nearly half a century's experience has taught doctors that antibiotics alone cannot cure infections.

If the cause is bacterial, antibiotics can cure the ulcer.

"But surely antibiotics would have cured such a thing?"

Unlike other infections, antibiotics alone will not usually cure an abscess.

Patients insist that antibiotics they have taken in the past have cured them.

Many are under the impression that they don't need the vaccine because antibiotics can cure pneumonia.

Antibiotics, for example, cannot cure the flu because it is a viral infection.