The Nurse Tells a Client with Pneumonia That the Physician

The nurse tells a client with pneumonia that the physician has prescribed a macrolide antibiotic because:
Select all that apply.

A) newer macrolides have a longer half-life,which makes less frequent dosing attractive to clients.
B) newer macrolides cause fewer gastrointestinal symptoms.
C) macrolide antibiotics are considered one of the safest classes of antibiotics.
D) food does not interfere with the absorption of macrolide antibiotics as it does with other classes of antibiotics.
E) there are no strains of bacteria resistant to macrolide antibiotics.