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SUBMITTER: Horita Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4249422 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Horita Yasuhiro Y Maeda Shinji S Kazumi Yuko Y Doi Norio N
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20140915 11
We evaluated the antituberculosis (anti-TB) activity of five β-lactams alone or in combination with β-lactamase inhibitors against 41 clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, including multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant strains. Of those, tebipenem, an oral carbapenem, showed the most potent anti-TB activity against clinical isolates, with a MIC range of 0.125 to 8 μg/ml, which is achievable in the human blood. More importantly, in the presence of clavulanate, MIC values ...[more]