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Given that leptospirosis is treated with doxycycline, you would have thought that they would have at least done a resistance study on the culture. Even if you d
by John23832 1y ago
Given that leptospirosis is treated with doxycycline, you would have thought that they would have at least done a resistance study on the culture. Even if you don’t know it’s leptospirosis, you can know it’s susceptible to tetracyclines and treat it.
- dillydogg 1y agoI don't know what kind of resistance study you would order if you don't have an isolate growing. I don't know how you could have a culture growing but not know the causative organism is a Leptospira spp. .
- John23832 1y agoYou could definitely have a culture growing without knowing the specific causative organism. It’s just growth on/in the medium. I do agree though, you can’t do a resistance study before isolation. I assumed that they did isolate.