Treatment
The treatment of choice is penicillin and the duration of treatment is well established as being 10 days minimum. There has been no reported instance of penicillin-resistance to date, although since 1985, there have been many reports of penicillin-tolerance.
Macrolides, chloramphenicol and tetracyclines may be used if the strain isolated has been shown to be sensitive, but resistance is much more common.
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