treatment failure, pneumonia
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Etiology
- inadequate antibiotic therapy
- resistant organism
- empiric quinolone therapy may mask active tuberculosis[2]
- inadequate blood levels of antibiotic(s)
- non-compliance
- unusual pathogen
- drug hypersensitivity
- Clostridium difficile (pseudomembranous) colitis
- complication:
- poor host defense
- endobronchial obstruction
- life-threatening comorbidity
- incorrect diagnosis (i.e. non-infectious etiology)