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JAC Advance Access published online on October 8, 2002
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, doi:10.1093/jac/dkf203
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Comparative in vitro activities of ertapenem against bacterial pathogens from patients with acute pelvic infection

Barbara A. Pelak 1, Diane M. Citron 2, Mary Motyl 1, Ellie J. C. Goldstein 2, Gail L. Woods 3*, Hedy Teppler 3

1 Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ
2 R. M. Alden Research Laboratory, Santa Monica, CA
3 Merck Research Laboratories, BL 3-4, PO Box 4, West Point, PA 19846-0004, USA

* Corresponding author. E-mail: gailwoods{at}merck.com.

Received 14 March 2002 ; revised 6 August 2002 ; accepted 12 August 2002

Abstract

This study compared the in vitro activities of ertapenem, ceftriaxone, co-amoxiclav, ciprofloxacin and piperacillin-tazobactam against 314 aerobic bacteria and of ertapenem, piperacillin-tazobactam, cefoxitin, ceftriaxone, chloramphenicol, ticarcillin-clavulanate, ampicillin-sulbactam, clindamycin and metronidazole against 500 anaerobic bacteria from 212 patients with acute pelvic infection. Antimicrobial susceptibilities were determined by broth microdilution (aerobes) or agar dilution (anaerobes), following NCCLS guidelines. The most common isolates were Enterobacteriaceae and Peptostreptococcus spp. Ertapenem was the most active drug tested against Enterobacteriaceae (100% susceptible) and anaerobes (99.8% susceptible); the least active agents were co-amoxiclav (79% of Enterobacteriaceae susceptible) and ceftriaxone (85.9% of anaerobes susceptible). All agents tested had excellent activity against ß-haemolytic streptococci and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus.


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