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Monday, February 21, 2011
Reverse Engineering
You are screening antibiotic requests and note that a young adolescent is being treated with a single injection of 250mg ceftriaxone along with doxycycline 100mg BID for seven days.
Challenge: What's one possible infection this could be targeted at?
This is an acceptable regimen for STD treatment; since Neisseria gonorrhoea and Chlamydia trachomitis infections often travel together, it is recommended to treat both at the same time.
Chlamydia + gonorrhea
ReplyDeleteChlamydia and Gonorrhea
ReplyDeletehow about epididymitis
ReplyDeleteyes! you are right
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Reverse Engineering
This is an acceptable regimen for STD treatment; since Neisseria gonorrhoea and Chlamydia trachomitis infections often travel together, it is recommended to treat both at the same time.
Source: UpToDate.