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Activity of cefmetazole against anaerobic bacteria
N A Cornick1, N V Jacobus, S L Gorbach
1Department of Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
|December 1, 1987
Abstract:
The in vitro activity of cefmetazole versus that of other antimicrobial drugs was assessed against 374 clinical isolates of Bacteroides spp., Clostridium spp., and anaerobic gram-positive cocci. Compared with cefoxitin, cefmetazole showed good activity against Bacteroides fragilis, other Bacteroides species, and anaerobic cocci. It was somewhat less active than cefoxitin against Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, B. ovatus, B. distasonis, and B. vulgatus and somewhat more active against Clostridium spp.