medium · GMAT Verbal
In a trial treating a common infection, patients given a 5-day antibiotic course relapsed no more often than those given the standard 10-day course. The shorter-course patients also carried fewer drug-resistant bacteria afterward. Both groups received the same drug at the same daily dose.
Which of these statements most strongly support which of the following?
- For this infection, halving the course length was not associated with more relapses despite reducing later resistant-bacteria levels.
- For this particular common infection, the 5-day antibiotic course is a more effective cure than the standard 10-day course is.
- Shorter antibiotic courses are clearly the preferable treatment option for treating every single type of infection there could be.
- The standard 10-day antibiotic course is the single factor responsible for causing most cases of antibiotic resistance seen worldwide.
- Patients who had been assigned to the longer 10-day antibiotic course must have been taking a noticeably higher daily dose of the very same drug.
Sign up free to see the explanation and track your rank →
More GMAT Verbal practice
- A gardener says: 'All roses in this garden require daily wat… — What is the role of the st
- What is the conclusion?
- Which of the following is the conclusion?
- What logical role do the first two statements play?
- What is the conclusion?
- What logical role does the first sentence play in the researcher's argument?
- Which statement is the conclusion?
- Which of the following, if true, most undermines the agency's claim?