Ronald N. Jones1, Peter Fuchs
1Department of Pathology, Kaiser Foundation Hospital Laboratories, Portland, Oregon 97217,
Tóm tắt
Antimicrobial susceptibility to cefamandole versus cephalothin and cefazolin versus cephalothin was compared by the broth microdilution method against 3,000 and 5,895 clinical bacterial isolates, respectively. Cefamandole and, to a lesser degree, cefazolin showed greater activity than cephalothin against
Enterobacteriaceae
, but the three drugs were comparable against gram-positive cocci.