Susceptibility of clinical strains of bacteria to cefoxitin

Bremner, D.A.

New Zealand Medical Journal 94(691): 173-174

1981


ISSN/ISBN: 0028-8446
PMID: 6945507
Document Number: 175446
The susceptibility of 3044 bacterial strains isolated from patients at Auckland Hospital were tested by the disc diffusion of cefoxitin, cephalothin and ampicillin. 86.5 percent of these strains were sensitive to cefoxitin, 71.3 percent sensitive to cephalothin and 41.6 percent ot ampicillin. A significant difference between cefoxitin and cephalothin was observed with E. coli, Klebsiella, Enterobacter and Proteus species. S. epidermidis alone showed significantly less strains susceptible to cefoxitin than cephalothin.

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