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Article: Ampicillin/sulbactam effective against resistant Acinetobacter.
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- TB & Outbreaks Week
- Article date:
- March 25, 2003
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2003 MAR 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ampicillin/sulbactam can be safely and effectively used to treat refractory Acinetobacter infections.
In a recent study from Brazil, "forty consecutive patients with nosomial infections caused by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii were treated with intravenous ampicillin/sulbactam."
Most of the treated patients suffered from "severe infections with underlying conditions (median APACHE II score: 14.5) and 72.5% occurred in the ICU," according to A. S. Levin and colleagues at the University of Sao Paulo.
After treatment, "twenty-seven (67.5%) were improved/cured, seven (17.5%) were failures and ...