TY - JOUR AU - Joly-Guillou, Marie-Laure AU - Kempf, Marie AU - Cavallo, Jean-Didier AU - Chomarat, Monique AU - Dubreuil, Luc AU - Maugein, Jeanne AU - Muller-Serieys, Claudette AU - Roussel-Delvallez, Micheline PY - 2010 DA - 2010/03/18 TI - Comparative in vitro activity of Meropenem, Imipenem and Piperacillin/tazobactam against 1071 clinical isolates using 2 different methods: a French multicentre study JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 72 VL - 10 IS - 1 AB - Meropenem is a carbapenem that has an excellent activity against many gram-positive and gram-negative aerobic, facultative, and anaerobic bacteria. The major objective of the present study was to assess the in vitro activity of meropenem compared to imipenem and piperacillin/tazobactam, against 1071 non-repetitive isolates collected from patients with bacteremia (55%), pneumonia (29%), peritonitis (12%) and wound infections (3%), in 15 French hospitals in 2006. The secondary aim of the study was to compare the results of routinely testings and those obtained by a referent laboratory. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-72 DO - 10.1186/1471-2334-10-72 ID - Joly-Guillou2010 ER -