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What is the antibiotic cefepime used for?
Cefepime injection is used to treat certain infections caused by bacteria including pneumonia, and skin, urinary tract, and kidney infections. Cefepime injection is used in combination with metronidazole (Flagyl) to treat abdominal (stomach area) infections.
What is vancomycin used to treat?
Vancomycin is used to treat colitis (inflammation of the intestine caused by certain bacteria) that may occur after antibiotic treatment. Vancomycin is in a class of medications called glycopeptide antibiotics. It works by killling bacteria in the intestines.
What is cefoperazone used for?
Cefobid (sterile cefoperazone) is a cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat infections caused by bacteria.
Is cefepime a good antibiotic?
Cefepime injection is used to treat bacterial infections in many different parts of the body. It belongs to the class of medicines known as cephalosporin antibiotics. It works by killing bacteria or preventing their growth. However, this medicine will not work for colds, flu, or other virus infections.
What bugs does cefepime cover?
Its spectrum is very large being very active against Gram-negative bacilii: Enterobacter, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Serratia, Citrobacter, Proteus mirabilis and less active against Bacillus fragillis.
Is cefepime bad for liver?
It is considered well-tolerated and is associated with few adverse reactions [12]. Although cefepime-induced neurotoxicity and nephrotoxicity have been reported in recent years, there are currently no formal reports of hepatic injury caused by this drug.
Is vancomycin the strongest antibiotic?
Vancomycin is active only with respect to Gram-positive bacteria. It is the most powerful of all of the known antibiotics with respect to S. aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidus, including methicillin- and cephalosporin-resistant strains.
Can vancomycin treat UTI?
Vancomycin is excreted unchanged in the urine and has been the agent most often used for patients with UTIs due to resistant gram-positive infections.
How do you give cefoperazone?
For intermittent intravenous infusion each 1 or 2 gram vial of cefoperazone should be dissolved in 20 to 100 ml of a compatible sterile intravenous solution and infused over a period of 15 minutes to one hour. If sterile water for injection is the preferred diluent, no more than 20 ml should be added to the vial.
Is ceftriaxone and cefoperazone same?
When antibiotic, administrative, and laboratory costs were calculated, cefoperazone was slightly less expensive than ceftriaxone. Both cefoperazone and ceftriaxone are effective therapy for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia.
Who should not take cefepime?
You should not use this medicine if you have ever had a severe allergic reaction to cefepime or any other cephalosporin antibiotic, such as: cefaclor (Ceclor), cefadroxil (Duricef), cefazolin (Kefzol);
Does cefepime treat MRSA?
Cefepime has broad-spectrum activity against gram-negative and gram-positive organisms. We have previously demonstrated that the combination of cefepime with vancomycin, linezolid, or quinupristin-dalfopristin had an improved or enhanced effect against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).