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Manage This MRSA-Related Pneumonia Case
Published on Wed Dec 06, 2023
Question: A patient presented to our pulmonology practice with complaints of high fever, a cough with yellow sputum, headache, chills, and shortness of breath. The pulmonologist listened to the patient’s lungs and collected a sputum culture. The physician initially diagnosed the patient with pneumonia, and the sputum culture results indicated methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as the causative agent, which the [...]