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Duration of Antibiotic Therapy for Cellulitis (DANCE): a Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing 6 to 12 Days of Antibiotic Therapy for Patients Hospitalized With Cellulitis.
Cellulitis in a patient with neutropenia requires empiric antipseudomonal antibiotics (eg, tobramycin 1.5 mg/kg IV q 8 h and piperacillin 3 g IV q 4 h) until blood culture results are available. A patient with mild cellulitis caused by mammalian bites can be treated as an outpatient with amoxicillin /clavulanate (if penicillin allergic, with a fluoroquinolone plus clindamycin or trimethoprim /sulfamethoxazole).