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Is there a role for cefpodoxime for treatment of acute cystitis caused by an Enterobacterales isolate with resistance to cefazolin, but susceptibility to ceftriaxone?

Can cefpodoxime susceptibility be reliably extrapolated from ceftriaxone susceptibility?
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Infectious Disease · Stanford
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Yes – “sort of”.

This is a much more complex question than it initially seems. First some background.

CLSI has established a surrogate cefazolin breakpoint to predict susceptibility of urine isolates of Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Proteus mirabilis causing uncomplicated infection to...

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