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What is your approach to antibiotic selection for bacterial species that demonstrate susceptibility to penicillins or cephalosporins on testing, but are known to harbor inducible AmpC resistance?
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Infectious Disease · Christiana Care Health Syst
I will assess how long I am treating the person/infection, and go from there in terms of how likely I am to induce the AmpC based on the duration of treatment. For example, if it's a 7-day course for UTI or GN bacteremia, I may risk the penicillin/cephalosporin (based on susceptibilities, of course)...