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A 37-year-old previously healthy man presents with fever, productive cough and right-sided pleuritic chest pain. He is tachycardic but haemodynamically stable, with CURB-65 score 0 and normal oxygen saturation. Chest radiograph shows right lower lobe consolidation. What is the most appropriate empirical outpatient antibiotic therapy?

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