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EasyPaediatricsPaediatric community-acquired pneumoniaca-mccqe1ca-ccfp

A 3-year-old boy presents with fever, tachypnoea, and focal crackles over the left lower lung field. He is otherwise well, fully immunised, and saturating 97 percent on room air. Chest radiography is not immediately available in the rural clinic. Based on Canadian paediatric infectious disease recommendations, which antibiotic is most appropriate as first-line outpatient therapy for presumed community-acquired pneumonia?

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