Select the Response by the Nurse to a 22-Year-Old Woman

Multiple Choice

Select the response by the nurse to a 22-year-old woman that best answers her question on why she must take two antibiotics, ceftriaxone (Rocephin) and doxycycline (Vivox) , for a gonorrhea infection.

A) These two antibiotics taken together lessen the side effects of each other.
B) Many people who have gonorrhea also have a Chlamydia infection, and these two medications will eliminate both.
C) The medications potentiate each other and are stronger together than separately.
D) The course of treatment can be shortened to 5 days when two antibiotics are used.