Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Case Report and Current Treatment Dilemmas

Resistance to macrolides is rising in the USA and warrants careful consideration when confronted with a patient with suspected pneumonia in the urgent care clinic. This case study exemplifies the potentially serious consequences of treatment failure following prescription of a macrolide for communit...

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Autor principal: Harnett, Glenn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5494078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28698812
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5045087
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description Resistance to macrolides is rising in the USA and warrants careful consideration when confronted with a patient with suspected pneumonia in the urgent care clinic. This case study exemplifies the potentially serious consequences of treatment failure following prescription of a macrolide for community-acquired bacterial pneumonia. Furthermore, the consequential treatment dilemmas currently faced by physicians are briefly discussed.
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spelling pubmed-54940782017-07-11 Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Case Report and Current Treatment Dilemmas Harnett, Glenn Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report Resistance to macrolides is rising in the USA and warrants careful consideration when confronted with a patient with suspected pneumonia in the urgent care clinic. This case study exemplifies the potentially serious consequences of treatment failure following prescription of a macrolide for community-acquired bacterial pneumonia. Furthermore, the consequential treatment dilemmas currently faced by physicians are briefly discussed. Hindawi 2017 2017-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5494078/ /pubmed/28698812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5045087 Text en Copyright © 2017 Glenn Harnett. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Case Report and Current Treatment Dilemmas
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