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wrbasek0

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If an adult patient with comorbidities cannot reliably take oral antibiotics to treat pneumonia, an appropriate initial treatment option would be:
 
  1. IV or IM gentamicin
  2. IV or IM ceftriaxone
  3. IV amoxicillin
  4. IV ciprofloxacin

Question 2

The first-line antibiotic choice for a patient with comorbidities or who is immunosuppressed who has pneumonia and can be treated as an outpatient would be:
 
  1. Levofloxacin
  2. Amoxicillin
  3. Ciprofloxacin
  4. Cephalexin



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