mecillinam

An extended-spectrum penicillin that is only active against gram-negative bacteria. It is not available in the USA.

Indications
Urinary tract infections, typhoid, paratyphoid fever.

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Inhibition of lateral wall elongation by mecillinam stimulates cell division in certain cell division conditional mutants of Escherichia coli.

Ultrastructure and X-ray Microanalysis of the Antibacterial Effects of Stem Bark Ethanol Extract of Acacia meamsii De Wild Against Some Selected Bacteria

We tested mecillinam, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, piperacillin/tazobactam, cefoxitin, cefotaxime, ceftazidime, cefepime, aztreonam, meropenem, gentamicin, tobramycin, amikacin, nalidixic acid, ciprofloxacin, trimethoprim, cotrimoxazole, nitrofurantoin, and tigecycline.

Rapid Increase in Carriage Rates of Enterobacteriaceae Producing Extended-Spectrum [beta]-Lactamases in Healthy Preschool Children, Sweden

Susceptibility of community Gram-negative urinary tract isolates to Mecillinam and other oral agents.

CHARACTERISATION OF COAGULASE-NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCI (CoNS) ISOLATED FROM PATIENTS WITH URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS

M2 PHARMA-May 17, 2018-Utility Therapeutics Licenses US Rights to Mecillinam, Pivmecillinam from LEO Pharma

Utility Therapeutics Licenses US Rights to Mecillinam, Pivmecillinam from LEO Pharma

Two-thirds of women with uncomplicated urinary tract infection treated symptomatically with ibuprofen 400 to 600 mg three times a day for three days recovered without use of antibiotics in three separate randomized clinical studies against ciprofloxacin, mecillinam, and fosfomycin.

Challenges of Treating Urinary Tract Infections in Post-Menopausal Women

Assay of ethambutol hydrochloride, mecillinam and levamisole hydrochloride tablets by linear titration," Zhongguo.

Development of RP-HPLC Method for the Simultaneous Quantitation of Levamisole and Albendazole: Application to Assay Validation

Kahlmeter, "A 10- year study of the consumption of quinolones trimethoprim and mecillinam in relation to the development of antimicrobial resistance in a large number of species," in Proceeding of European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Poster 417, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2002.

Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Bacterial Uropathogens Isolated from Pediatric Patients at Yekatit 12 Hospital Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

"With this setup, we could detect the differential growth rate between treatment and reference populations in 3 min for ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, mecillinam, nitrofurantoin, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole; 7 min for amoxicillin-clavulanate and doripenem; 9 min for fosfomycin; and 11 min for ampicillin based on 99.9% confidence intervals," wrote Ozden Baltekin and his coauthors.

Researchers develop 30-minute antibiotic susceptibility test for UTI

Harding et al., "A Canadian national surveillance study of urinary tract isolates from outpatients: comparison of the activities of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, ampicillin, mecillinam, nitrofurantoin, and ciprofloxacin," Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol.

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Fosfomycin for Treatment of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections in Ontario

All isolates were resistant to cefamandole, ampicillin, cloxacillin, colistin, mecillinam ciprofloxacin and tetracycline ,while all of isolates were sensitive to Azithromycin ,penicillin G and novobiocin (Table 3).

First case of vancomycin resistant Streptococcus alactofyticus from raw milk in Baghdad-Iraq

None of the strains were resistant to mecillinam or ciprofloxacin.

Plasmid Profile Analysis and Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern of Shigella flexneri Strains Isolated From Azad Kashmir Pakistan

Mecillinam is a novel [beta]-lactam antibiotic that is active against many members of family Enterobacteriaceae.

Extended spectrum beta lactamase positive uropathogenic E. coli--epidemiological factors and resistance