Danny L., the patient, is a 40-year-old man with a low-cervicalspinal cord injury (result of a diving accident at age 17). He is aparaplegic and has a chronic indwelling Foley catheter, whichdrains urine from his bladder. As a result he has developedrecurrent urinary tract infections that were resistant to manyantibiotics (ciprofloxacin, levofloxicin, sulfonamides,tetracyline, doxycycline, and chloramphenicol) over the past 10years.
He was admitted to the hospital yesterdaywith:
high fever
urine culture shows greater than 100,000 colonies Gram (-)bacillus
1) What would you treat Danny L. with for hiscondition?
2) What kind of side effects can Danny expectbecause of your treatment therapy?
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