Respuesta :

the infection could overtake the whole body and could even shut down the body killing everything in the body.

Ans. Antibiotic resistant bacteria.

If someone fails to complete the course of antibiotics for an infection, some of infection causing bacteria may survive (having a greater resistance for those antibiotics). It will lead to bacterial population in afflicted patient, with a higher resistance than normal ones.

When these resistant bacteria reproduce, infection caused by their progeny would not be treatable with same old antibiotics.