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Cefuroxime - Injection products

Recognized Interpretive Criteria

Exception to the recognized standard of CLSI M100

	Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations (mcg/mL)			Disk Diffusion (zone diameter in mm)
Pathogen	S	I	R	S	I	R
Enterobacterales	≤8	-	≥16	≥18	-	≤17
Haemophilus influenzae and parainfluenzae	M100 standard is recognized
Streptococcus pneumoniae	M100 standard is recognized			-	-	-

S = Susceptible; I = Intermediate; R = Resistant

For Enterobacterales, susceptibility interpretive criteria are based on a dose of 1.5g every 8 hours in patients with normal renal function

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