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Failure to respond to treatment

Authoring team

Failure to respond to initial treatment may be caused by:-

  • a wrong diagnosis
  • a resistant organism
  • other pulmonary disease - pre-existing obstruction or bronchiectasis, or complications such as abscess and empyema
  • fever due to an allergic drug reaction

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