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Fifteen patients with documented bacterial lower respiratory tract infections were treated with cefoperazone (2 gm every 12 hours, administered parenterally) as the single antibiotic therapy. Pulmonary infections included pneumonia (10), anaerobic lung abscess (2), bronchitis (2), and exacerbation of bronchiectasis (1); most of the patients had concomitant illnesses that compromised their host-immune status. Bacteria recovered from respiratory tract cultures included aerobic gram-negative bacilli (17), anaerobes (6), and aerobic gram-positive cocci (3). After therapy, lasting 5 to 28 days, nine patients had complete resolution of their infection, and the remaining six patients had significant clinical improvement. Diarrhea was the adverse reaction most commonly noted; others included an unusual reaction resembling serum sickness, and, in one patient treated for 24 days, hypotension and a subsequent decrease in renal function. Drug-related abnormalities in blood and serum values were few and mild. Cefoperazone was found to be effective in the treatment of lower respiratory tract infections.
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PMID:Treatment of lower respiratory tract infections with cefoperazone. 622 98

Cefoperazone (CPZ) at dose levels of 80 approximately 100 mg/kg/day, divided 3 approximately 4 times, was drip-infused or intravenously injected for a period of 2 approximately 6 days to 10 patients. All 10 cases, 4 cases of bronchopneumonia from which H. influenzae was detected (Group A S. pyogenes and S. pneumoniae were also detected in each 1 case). 2 cases of coli urinary tract infection, 1 case of acute colitis from which pathogenic E. coli was detected, 1 case of E. coli carrier, 1 case of acute bronchitis (bacteria were not detected), and 1 case of urinary tract infection (bacteria were not detected) showed rapid improvement of clinical symptoms with rapid eradication of the pathogenic bacteria. In one case of urinary tract infection where S. epidermidis and S. faecalis were simultaneously detected, S. epidermidis was removed but S. faecalis was merely decreased. The effective antibacterial concentration after intravenous injection of CPZ in the feces was determined and found to be present in sufficient concentrations to prevent colon infection. No particular side effects were observed during CPZ therapy.
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PMID:[Clinical studies on cefoperazone in the pediatric field (author's transl)]. 645 26