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Old Mon May 21, 2012, 04:03 AM
Birgitta-A Birgitta-A is offline
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Hi Neel,
You know as soon as they have started to give antibiotics all cultures will be sterile. They have to find the bacteria, virus or fungi in the very first tests. Then they have to start treatment at once without knowing if they choose the best antibiotics. As I have written before it is very common that they can't find anything so they try different drugs.

It is positive that they have continued to examine your father because they think that he can have an infection and now they found that he perhaps has TB. Drugs for TB are quite aggressive. Hopefully they can treat the infection without decreasing his counts that already are low.
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Birgitta-A
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