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S1 Ep10: UTIs: Pearls of Liquid Gold

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The Standard Recommendation for Antibiotic Therapy

I was always taught that antibiotic therapy has to either be a multiple of five or a number of weeks. What are you, what's the standard recommendation for how long we're striving this medicine? That's interesting because I thought the usual teaching was it had to be a football score. We wrestled with this like crazy in the 2011 guidelines. The only head-to-head study I knew of about treatment was that six weeks was no better than 14 days.

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