Question

Based on this passage, what is azithromycin? Physicians rely on drugs like ciprofloxacin and azithromycin for treating patients with severe disease…. Campylobacter is estimated to cause approximately 1.3 million infections, 13,000 hospitalizations, and 120 deaths each year in the United States. The CDC is seeing resistance to ciprofloxacin in almost 25 percent of campylobacter tested and resistance to azithromycin in about 2 percent.
a lab procedure to identify drug-resistant microbes

a disease that can cause paralysis

an antibiotic

a blood infection

Answer 1

Hello!

The correct answer is C. an antibiotic

"Physicians rely on drugs like ciprofloxacin and azithromycin for treating patients with severe disease...."

Based on that one sentence and the words in bold, you can tell that the answer is clearly not A, B, or D.

Also, I took the test just now and got the answer correct! :P

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