A patient who has been receiving clindamycin for 10 days develops profuse diarrhea and abdominal pain and has a temperature of 101.2° F. The nurse suspects that the patient has an in-fection caused by C. difficile
The nurse would expect the prescriber to order a. penicillin G.
b. vancomycin (Vancocin).
c. tetracycline (Sumycin).
d. azithromycin (Zithromax).
B
Vancomycin or Flagyl should be ordered for a patient with an infection caused by Clostridium difficile (C. difficile).
Penicillin, tetracycline, and azithromycin are not indicated for the treatment of C. difficile infec-tion.
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