A Patient Comes to the Clinic Complaining of Difficulty Urinating

question 14

Multiple Choice

A patient comes to the clinic complaining of difficulty urinating, flu-like symptoms, genital tingling, and blister-like vesicles on the upper thigh and vagina. She denies having ever had these symptoms before. The medication the physician is most likely to order would be:

• A) Oral acyclovir.
• B) Ceftriaxone IM.
• C) Azithromycin p.o.
• D) Penicillin G IM.

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