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. 2025 Mar 3;33(2):e004358. doi: 10.1136/ejhpharm-2024-004358

Table 2. Findings of visual inspection and Tyndall beam in solutions.

Drug Colour/Clarity (White background) Tyndall beam (Black background)
0 hour 1 hour 2 hour 4 hour 0 hour 1 hour 2 hour 4 hour
Tigecycline (1 mg/mL)A1 Yellow/Clear Yellow/Clear Yellow/Clear Yellow/Clear N N N N
Tigecycline (0.5 mg/mL)A2 Yellow/Clear Yellow/Clear Yellow/Clear Yellow/Clear N N N N
Metronidazole and sodium chloride injectionB Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear N N N N
MeropenemC Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear N N N N
Imipenem and cilastatinD Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear N N N N
Fosfomycin sodiumE Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear N N N N
AztreonamF Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear N N N N
VancomycinG Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear N N N N
CAZ-AVI H Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear Colourless/Clear N N N N
Calcium chloride with composite potassium hydrogen phosphateI White/Turbid White/Precipitate White/Precipitate White/Precipitate P P P P
10 µm latex particles reference materialJ Colourless/Clear P
25 µm particle count reference materialK Colourless/Clear P

A1-G: the combinations of CAZ-AVI with selected drugs separately; H: negative control, 25 mg/ml CAZ-AVI in NS; I: positive control, calcium chloride with composite potassium in NS; J: 57 positive control, 10 μm latex particles reference material; K: positive control, 25 μm particle count reference material; N: Tyndall negative; P: Tyndall positive.