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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, April 2002, p. 1136-1140, Vol. 46, No. 4
0066-4804/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AAC.46.4.1136-1140.2002
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Comparative In Vitro Activities of Ertapenem (MK-0826) against 469 Less Frequently Identified Anaerobes Isolated from Human Infections

R. M. Alden Research Laboratory, Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, California 90404 ,¹ School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024²

Received 16 May 2001/ Returned for modification 25 November 2001/ Accepted 26 December 2001

We studied the in vitro activity of ertapenem against 469 less frequently identified anaerobes from 11 genera and 52 species isolated from human infections. Ertapenem was uniformly active against 460 of 469 (98%) strains at concentrations of 4 µg/ml. Only 4 of 14 Clostridium difficile, 1 of 11 Clostridium innocuum, and 4 of 6 Lactobacillus sp. strains required ertapenem concentrations of 8 µg/ml for inhibition.

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