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. 1998 Jul;42(7):1659–1665. doi: 10.1128/aac.42.7.1659

TABLE 3.

Median (range) urinary bactericidal titers (reciprocal values)a

Collecting period (h) Median (range) UBTb (reciprocal value) of indicated drug for:
E. coli ATCC 25922
K. pneumoniae
E. coli
S. aureus I
P. mirabilis
P. aeruginosa I
FLX PFL FLX PFL FLX PFL FLX PFL FLX PFL FLX PFL
0–6 512 (128–1,024) 256 (128–1,024) 512 (64–1,024) 128 (64–512) 32 (8–256) 16 (4–128) 128 (16–512) 128 (64–512) 256 (128–1,024) 512 (256–1024) 32 (16–128) 16 (4–64)
6–12 512 (64–1,024) 128 (64–512) 256 (64–1,024) 128 (32–512) 24 (4–256) 16 (4–64) 128 (16–512) 128 (64–256) 256 (64–1,024) 512 (128–1,024) 32 (8–128) 16 (8–32)
12–24 256 (32–1,024) 128 (32–1,024) 256 (16–512) 128 (16–512) 16 (4–64) 8 (2–64) 64 (4–256) 128 (32–256) 128 (64–1,024) 512 (128–1,024) 16 (4–32) 8 (4–32)
24–48 64 (32–512) 64 (16–512) 64 (16–256) 32 (8–512) 4 (0–32) 4 (0–64) 32 (2–128) 64 (16–128) 32 (32–256) 128 (64–512) 4 (2–16) 2 (0–32)
48–72 24 (4–128) 24 (2–256) 16 (2–64) 16 (0–128) 0 (0–8) 1 (0–16) 8 (0–16) 16 (4–32) 8 (4–32) 64 (16–128) 0 (0–4) 0 0–8)
72–96 8 (0–32) 8 (0–128) 3 (0–16) 4 (0–32) 0 0 (0–8) 1 (0–4) 4 (1–16) 2 (0–8) 16 (4–128) 0 0 (0–4)
96–120 0 (0–8) 2 (0–32) 0 (0–2) 1 (0–32) 0 0 (0–2) 0 (0–8) 1 (0–4) 0 (0–2) 4 (1–32) 0 0 (0–1)
120–144 0 (0–4) 0 (0–64) 0 (0–2) 0 (0–32) 0 0 0 1 (0–8) 0 2 (0–32) 0 0
144–168 0 (0–4) 0 (0–32) 0 (0–4) 0 (0–16) 0 0 0 0 (0–4) 0 1 (0–32) 0 0
Median (range) UBT (reciprocal value) of indicated drug for:
P. aeruginosa II
E. faecalis I
S. saprophyticus
E. faecalis II
S. aureus II
Streptococcus group B sp.
FLX PFL FLX PFL FLX PFL FLX PFL FLX PFL FLX PFL
16 (4–64) 8 (4–32) 16 (4–32) 16 (0–32) 32 (16–64) 32 (8–64) 8 (4–32) 16 (4–32) 4 (1–16) 1 (0–8) 8 (4–32) 8 (4–16)
8 (2–64) 8 (4–32) 16 (2–32) 8 (0–16) 24 (8–64) 16 (8–64) 8 (2–16) 8 (4–16) 2 (1–8) 1 (0–4) 8 (4–32) 8 (2–16)
8 (2–16) 4 (2–16) 8 (2–16) 8 (0–16) 16 (4–32) 32 (8–32) 4 (2–8) 4 (2–16) 2 (0–2) 1 (0–2) 6 (2–16) 8 (0–16)
2 (0–16) 2 (0–16) 2 (0–4) 2 (0–8) 4 (2–8) 8 (4–16) 1 (0–4) 2 (0–8) 0 (0–2) 1 (0–1) 2 (0–4) 2 (0–4)
0 (0–2) 0 (0–4) 0 (0–1) 1 (0–2) 0 (0–2) 2 (8–8) 0 (0–1) 0 (0–2) 0 (0–1) 0 (0–1) 0 (0–2) 0 (0–2)
0 0 (0–4) 0 0 (0–1) 0 1 (0–2) 0 0 (0–1) 0 0 (0–1) 0 (0–2) 0 (0–2)
0 0 (0–1) 0 0 0 0 (0–1) 0 0 0 0 0 (0–1) 0 (0–2)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0–1) 0 (0–1)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0–1) 0
a

Dilution with antibiotic-free urine 

b

Values in boldface are those that are significantly (P < 0.05) different for the two treatment groups. Ranges with endpoints of 1,024 include values greater than 1,024.