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An 68 kg patient is to be given a 2.0 mg/kg body weight IV bolus dose of a newly developed antibiotic drug every 6 hours. Assume the half-life of the drug and its volume of distribution in the patient are 3.2 hours and 0.26 L/kg respectively.
(a) Calculate the peak and trough plasma concentrations for the antibiotic after, one dose, two doses, four doses, and at steady state.
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