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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Pneumonia, Pneumococcal
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Demographics, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Imaging Studies, Treatment, Medications, Outpatient, Inpatient, Therapeutic Procedures, Outcome, Follow-Up, Complications, Prevention, Pneumococcal vaccine, Prognosis, When to Refer, References,
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Topics Discussed: pneumococcal vaccine; pneumonia, pneumococcal.
Excerpt: | |  Amoxicillin, 750 mg twice daily orally for 7–10 days
Alternatives are azithromycin, one 500-mg dose orally on the first day and 250 mg orally for the next 4 days; clarithromycin, 500 mg twice daily orally for 10 days; or doxycycline, 100 mg twice daily orally for 10 days; levofloxacin, 750 mg orally for 5 days; or moxifloxacin 400 mg orally for 7–14 days |
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