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First-line antibiotic therapy for dogs with pneumonia. The initial antibiotic choice should provide broad-spectrum coverage for the most likely organisms, bearing in mind the possibility of polymicrobial infection.
With bacterial pneumonia, your vet will likely treat the infection with a broad-spectrum antibiotic or a combination of antibiotics, particularly before culture results are available.
Human medicine has transitioned to shorter-duration (5–7 days) antibiotic therapy for treatment of pneumonia, and early evidence in veterinary medicine suggests that shorter durations of antibiotics may be safe and effective for some cases of bacterial pneumonia in dogs and cats.
A tentative diagnosis of fungal pneumonia can be made if an animal with long-term respiratory disease exhibits typical signs and does not respond to antibiotic therapy. (Antibiotics are effective against bacteria but not against fungi or other organisms.)
Advice regarding antibiotic regimens has recently changed, so a short or long course may be prescribed based on your pet's needs and the cause of pneumonia. Fungal infectious may require several weeks of antifungal medications, as well as other medications to control inflammation.
Any bacterial isolate from the lower respiratory tract of a pneumonia suspect should be submitted for a susceptibility test, especially since the offending organisms in dogs and cats are often Gram-negative bacteria, which are extremely variable in their antibiotic sensitivity.
antimicrobial treatment choices for use in the management of bacterial respiratory diseases in dogs and cats. Key words: Bronchitis; Pneumonia; Pyothorax; Rhinitis. T his document contains guidelines for the treatment of bacterial causes of feline upper respiratory tract disease (URTD), canine infectious respiratory disease