A client who has been taking antibiotics for approximately 4 days develops a superinfection.When explaining superinfection to the client,the nurse would include that it develops

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Superinfections often occur when large doses of antibiotics are used because they not only kill the targeted pathogenic bacteria but also affect the normal flora, allowing other opportunistic bacteria or fungi to overgrow and cause infection. Superinfection may not develop rarely with the use of single-drug therapy or all the time with any type of intravenous antibiotics. It may occur with both narrow-spectrum and broad-spectrum antibiotics.

A Client Who Has Been Taking Antibiotics for Approximately 4