1. In Vitro Activities of Faropenem against 579 Strains of Anaerobic Bacteria
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Wexler, Hannah M., Molitoris, Denise, St. John, Shahera, Vu, Ann, Read, Erik K., and Finegold, Sydney M.
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ABSTRACTThe activity of faropenem, a new oral penem, was tested against 579 strains of anaerobic bacteria by using the NCCLS-approved reference method. Drugs tested included amoxicillin-clavulanate, cefoxitin, clindamycin, faropenem, imipenem, and metronidazole. Of the 176 strains of Bacteroides fragilisgroup isolates tested, two isolates had faropenem MICs of 64 μg/ml and imipenem MICs of >32 μg/ml. Faropenem had an MIC of 16 μg/ml for an additional isolate of B. fragilis; this strain was sensitive to imipenem (MIC of 1 μg/ml). Both faropenem and imipenem had MICs of ≤4 μg/ml for all isolates of Bacteroides capillosus(10 isolates), Bacteroides splanchnicus(13 isolates), Bacteroides ureolyticus(11 isolates), Bilophila wadsworthia(11 isolates), Porphyromonasspecies (42 isolates), Prevotellaspecies (78 isolates), Campylobacterspecies (25 isolates), Sutterella wadsworthensis(11 isolates), Fusobacterium nucleatum(19 isolates), Fusobacterium mortiferum/varium(20 isolates), and other Fusobacteriumspecies (9 isolates). Faropenem and imipenem had MICs of 16 to 32 μg/ml for two strains of Clostridium difficile; the MICs for all other strains of Clostridiumtested (69 isolates) were ≤4 μg/ml. Faropenem had MICs of 8 and 16 μg/ml, respectively, for two strains of Peptostreptococcus anaerobius(MICs of imipenem were 2 μg/ml). MICs were ≤4 μg/ml for all other strains of gram-positive anaerobic cocci (53 isolates) and non-spore-forming gram-positive rods (28 isolates). Other results were as expected and reported in previous studies. No metronidazole resistance was seen in gram-negative anaerobes other than S. wadsworthensis(18% resistant); 63% of gram-positive non-spore-forming rods were resistant. Some degree of clindamycin resistance was seen in most of the groups tested.
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- 2002
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