A 5-year-old child has been diagnosed with acute right distal pneumonia. Sputum inoculation revealed that the causative agent is resistant to penicillin, but it is senstive to macrolides. What drug should be prescribed?

Answer options

1. Gentamycin
2. Streptomycin
3. Tetracycline
4. Azithromycin
5. Ampicillin

Explanation

A 5-year-old child has been diagnosed with acute right distal pneumonia. Sputum inoculation revealed that the causative agent is resistant to penicillin, but it is senstive to macrolides. What drug should be prescribed? Azithromycin is a macrolide that is broad-spectrum and used to treat diseases and infections that do not respond to penicillin medication. Note that most macrolides (antibiotics) have theycin ending.