Urinary Tract Infection Practice Test

Question #5 answer: 

GH is a 21 year-old female who recently visited her primary care doctor for an annual checkup. She gave a urine sample at the visit and it has come back positive for Enterococcus faecium that is resistant to both ampicillin and vancomycin, making it a vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE). She reports no fever, chills, dysuria, frequency, urgency flank pain or other symptom. She has no significant past medical history and is not pregnant. Which of the following best describes this situation?

A. Cystitis, give linezolid

B. Lower urinary tract infection, give fosfomycin

C. Asymptomatic bacteriuria, do not give antibiotics CORRECT

D. Unknown infection, send patient to emergency room

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