A 32-year-old lactating mother develops sudden onset of severe breast pain, localized erythema, induration, and fever (38.5°C) on day 10 postpartum. Milk culture is pending. What is the drug of choice for empirical treatment of acute mastitis in a breastfeeding woman?

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