Recommended antibiotic treatment for plague

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Vector-Borne Diseases.
• Description:
  Begin appropriate IV therapy as soon as plague is suspected. Gentamicin and fluoroquinolones are typically first-line treatments in the United States. Duration of treatment is 10 to 14 days, or until 2 days after fever subsides. Oral therapy may be substituted once the patient improves.
  
  The regimens listed below are guidelines only and may need to be adjusted depending on a patient's age, medical history, underlying health conditions, or allergies. Please use clinical judgment.
  
  Publication date from document properties.
  
  Recommended-antibiotics-for-plague_revision-Aug-2015_Final-(00000002).pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic Use Plague/drug Therapy
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cf86ff30b5ed0d399db7d61c9cfb4dc3ab85d819eec2ba4099f38078714c8290
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/134103/cdc_134103_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 333.62 KB ]