title: Infection in women. Clinical experience with beta-lactamase inhibitors.
abstract: Because of the high incidence of beta-lactamase production among bacteria that are found commonly in pelvic infections in women, beta-lactamase-inhibiting antibiotics should prove effective in treating those infections. In a randomized, comparative study of 47 women with intraabdominal infections, 23 received ticarcillin disodium/clavulanate potassium, and 24 received cefoxitin. Among the infections treated were endometritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, amnionitis, salpingitis, septicemia, intraabdominal abscess and pelvic abscess. The bacteriologic response to ticarcillin disodium/clavulanate potassium was 88.8% success as compared with 87.5% for cefoxitin. Clinical cures were achieved in 98.8% of patients treated with ticarcillin disodium/clavulanate potassium and 90.9% of patients treated with cefoxitin. The adverse reactions were diarrhea, transient eosinophilia and transient thrombocytosis.
authors.affiliation: Infectious Disease Research Laboratory, Wilmington Medical Center, Delaware 19889.
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Holloway
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D002440:Cefoxitin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D019818:Clavulanic Acid; D002969:Clavulanic Acids / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D004338:Drug Combinations; D004716:Endometritis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000292:Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010406:Penicillins / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011897:Random Allocation; D013982:Ticarcillin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D065093:beta-Lactamase Inhibitors
chemical_list: D002969:Clavulanic Acids; D004338:Drug Combinations; D010406:Penicillins; D065093:beta-Lactamase Inhibitors; D019818:Clavulanic Acid; D002440:Cefoxitin; D013982:Ticarcillin