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If it's some other virus, we'll never find it in time, anyway.

如果是其他病毒 我们也无法及时找到它

Which leads us to bacterial infection.

所以我们应该考虑细菌性感染

It's not responding to broad-spectrum antibiotics

孩子们对广谱抗生素没反应

so we've got something resistant.The usual suspects.

因此是耐药菌株 比较常见的怀疑对象

MRSA. It's always MRSA in hospitals.

抗甲氧西林金黄色葡萄球菌 医院里总会有

Maybe a contaminated food or water source?

也许是污染的食物或者水源呢

Pseudomonas

绿脓杆菌

Vre?

抗万古霉素肠球菌

HFlu.

H 流感

Okay, those are the big ones.

好吧 这些是可能性比较大的

Cultures will take 48 hours,might as well be postmortem.

细菌培养要 48 小时 估计他们死后才能出结果

We'll start them on Vancomycin for the MRSA

给他们用万古霉素治疗抗甲氧西林金黄色葡萄球菌

and Aztreonam for the rest.

用氨曲南对付其它的病因

Let's get MRIs, check for abcesses or some occult infection.

去做核磁共振 检查脓肿和隐性感染

I'll be in the clinic. Grab me if you find something important.

我会在门诊 有重大发现马上通知我

Or unimportant.

不重大也行

We did a MRI on all the babies

我们给所有婴儿做了核磁共振

and unfortunately, we didn't find anything

不幸的是 一无所获

so we're starting him on the strongest antibiotics we've got

我们准备开始给他用最强效抗生素

and we're hoping that that'll take care of it.

希望这能解决问题

But he's so tiny.

不过他还这么小

——From《House M.D》

重点词汇（Vocabulary）

1.bacterial infection [医] 细菌感染2.broad-spectrum [,brɔ:d'spektrəm] adj. 广谱的；用途广泛的3.resistant [rɪˈzɪstənt] adj. 抵制的，反抗的；有抵抗力的4.contaminated [kən'tæmɪneɪtɪd] adj. 受污染的，弄脏的5.occult [əˈkʌlt] adj. （疾病，过程）不伴随可见迹现象（或症状）的；（血液）（潜）隐的

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