In Vitro Activities of Doripenem, a New Broad-Spectrum Carbapenem, against Recently Collected Clinical Anaerobic Isolates, with Emphasis on the Bacteroides fragilis Group

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
2008.0

Abstract

Doripenem was evaluated against 527 recent clinical isolates, i.e., 404 Bacteroides fragilis isolates and 123 gram-positive anaerobe isolates. Against B. fragilis, doripenem was as active as imipenem, meropenem, and piperacillin-tazobactam and more active than ertapenem or ampicillin-sulbactam. Doripenem was active against isolates resistant to ertapenem, ampicillin-sulbactam, cefoxitin, clindamycin, and moxifloxacin. All of the gram-positive isolates tested were susceptible to doripenem.

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