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Table 1 Susceptibility and MICs of 144 pneumococcal isolates to 11 antibiotics

From: Dynamics of serotype 14 Streptococcus pneumoniae population causing acute respiratory infections among children in China (1997–2012)

Antibiotics

Susceptibility

MIC(μg/ml)

I(%)

R(%)

50 %

90 %

Range

PEN

0.7

0

0.5

1

0.004–3

AMC

0

0

0.38

1

0.008–2

CXM

43.8

7.6

1.5

3

0.008–6

CRO

6.9

1.4

0.38

1

0.004–8

IPM

49.3

0

0.094

0.19

0.004–0.38

ERY

0

99.3

>256

>256

0.125–> 256

LVX

0

0

0.5

0.75

0.25–1.5

VAN

0

0

0.5

0.75

0.094–1

TCY

28.5

56.9

-

-

-

SXT

0

47.2

-

-

-

CHL

0

15.3

-

-

-

  1. PEN penicillin, AMC amoxicillin–clavulanic acid, CXM cefuroxime, CRO ceftriaxone, IPM imipenem, ERY erythromycin, LVX levofloxacin, VAN vancomycin, TCY tetracycline, CHL chloramphenicol, SXT trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole, - no data for disk diffusion test, I intermediate, R resistant, MIC50 minimum inhibitory concentration at which 50 % of the strains were inhibited, MIC90 minimum inhibitory concentration at which 90 % of the strains were inhibited, MIC range range of minimum inhibitory concentration