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Pseudomonas cepacia susceptibility to sulbactam
Author(s) -
George A. Jacoby,
Lorraine Sutton
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.07
H-Index - 259
eISSN - 1070-6283
pISSN - 0066-4804
DOI - 10.1128/aac.33.4.583
Subject(s) - sulbactam , microbiology and biotechnology , pseudomonas , sputum , agar dilution , ampicillin , agar dilution method , agar , pseudomonas aeruginosa , biology , minimum inhibitory concentration , medicine , bacteria , antibiotics , imipenem , antibiotic resistance , tuberculosis , genetics , pathology
For 25 of 32 Pseudomonas cepacia isolates, predominantly from sputum of adult patients, agar dilution MICs of sulbactam were 2.5 micrograms/ml, and for only one was the MIC more than 80 micrograms/ml. Susceptibility was reliably predicted by response to a commercial sulbactam-ampicillin disk.

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