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"(2) Premature aduinistration of antibiotics mirht have
obscured medical indications for treatment ..."
Most bacteria will ‘evelop resistance to antibiotics after
a peviod of time.
Thus iv one vives antibiotics prematurely and
there is an invasion of commensal or anisms takin. place and the
antibiotic would suppress the clinical siyns of infection and
at the same time, the bacteria mav be Jevelonpin:. resistance
antibiotic.
Thus, one would lose the capability of usin; a
able ascent if and when @ fran infection ceveloped.
In my
antibiotics ave seidom neeced prophylactically particularly
iucividcuals areunder continuous observation.
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valopinion,
when
Cerviainly in auimals, it has veer deconsirate. repeatedly
thet one can control the infections
thar se elop in the irradiatec
animal by acministerin; antibiotics wher the infection cevelops.
Question: What is the normal procecure when 2 phvsician
encounters a patient with a ,ranulocyte vount of 7%) 7?
The patients are observed carefully with white counts bein:
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Waitin for the bacteriols, ical sta nesis,
spectrum antibiotic in hi. h uosa:e.
cst si 7. af infection,
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Uhat risk to the patient is tnvolvec in not
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scopis lactic Lrestoeny fy Such & cage.
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produces ai: a equate number of cvanulocytes.
If antibiotics ave
piven prematurely, one runs the ris of several difzerent types of
bacteria becomins
resistant to this antibiotic thus Jepri¥ingsthe
patient of an actibiotic vhich wav be vreeda’ at a later time to
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