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She has strep and is on 7th day of antibiotics, but her fever has returned. she has had fever at around 100.4 for almost 48 hours. what's likely cause?
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Infection: strep infections take 7-10 days to be eradicated by antibiotics. Please wait 3 more days.
Answered 5/3/2016
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