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Having uti symptoms for weeks and recently had a guidance culture done on my urine and it came back with corynebacterium riegelii and viridans strep. what are the best antibiotics to fight both of these? levaquin did nothing for me, on keflex now

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Dr. Richard Romano answered

Culture : The culture gives you the answer. The culture comes with a sensitivity to find out what antibiotics will work

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Answered 6/19/2019

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A member asked:

Having uti symptoms for weeks and recently had a guidance culture done on my urine and it came back with corynebacterium riegelii and viridans strep. what are the best antibiotics to fight both of these? levaquin did nothing for me, on keflex now

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Richard Romano answered

Dr Berryman and 4 doctors agreed

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