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Did they get a sputum sample? Sometimes if they can't kick it with a broad spectrum antibiotic, they culture it and make sure they have the right antibiotic. (They expose whatever grows to different antibiotics and see what kills it).
Make sure you take ALL your antibiotics. People think that resistant strains come from using antibiotics when the situation does not warrant it (in case of a viral infection and not a bacterial infection) but it is also when "super mutant" strains of the bacteria survive when people don't follow instructions with antibiotics. For example, you are supposed to take seven days of so and so antibiotic. By day three you feel awesome and stop taking by day four. What happens is that your body is fighting the bacteria but the ones that are surviving are allowed to multiply... Basically the strongest ones that survived the first couple doses of antibiotics. So when you try to take the same antibiotics, they may not work as well because you basically let the bacteria get used to it and able to survive. Does that make sense? That is why all these resistant bacteria are emerging. So finish your antibiotics as instructed, people!!!!
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