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. 2010 Jan 25;54(4):1627–1632. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01788-09

TABLE 2.

Ceftaroline MIC distributions for Gram-negative and Gram-positive anaerobes

Organism group and organism Total Cumulative % of isolates with the following ceftaroline MIC (μg/ml):
≤0.008 0.015 0.03 0.06 0.125 0.25 0.5 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 >64
Gram-negative anaerobes
    Bacteroides fragilis 30 7 37 63 73 100
    Bacteroides fragilis group, othera 46 4 7 9 20 37 57 100
    Prevotella speciesb 98 3.1 4.1 12 18 27 37 43 50 55 63 74 82 91 96 100
    Porphyromonas speciesc 31 13 71 81 84 87 90 100
    Fusobacterium nucleatum/Fusobacterium necrophorumd 44 25 50 77 89 100
    Fusobacterium mortiferum 10 10 20 70 80 90 100
    Fusobacterium varium 10 20 30 80 100
    Veillonella species 19 5 32 84 89 95 100
        Total 288
Gram-positive anaerobes
    All Gram-positive coccie 127 10 20 30 47 61 82 92 96 97 98 100
    Propionibacterium and Actinomyces speciesf 44 43 57 64 77 82 100
    Lactobacillus casei-Lactobacillus rhamnosus groupg 10 20 80 90 100
    Eggerthella lenta 17 6 12 88 100
    “Eubacterium” group, otherh 25 8 20 28 92 100
    Clostridium perfringens 20 15 35 60 90 100
    Clostridium ramosum 21 90 100
    Clostridium innocuum 21 29 67 95 100
    Clostridium clostridioforme groupi 20 15 35 80 100
    Clostridium species, otherj 24 4 8 21 46 54 67 75 83 100
        Total 329
a

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (n = 20), B. caccae (n = 6), B. distasonis (n = 3), B. merdae (n = 1), B. ovatus (n = 5), B. uniformis (n = 4), and B. vulgatus (n = 7).

b

Prevotella bivia (n = 20), P. buccae (n = 20), P. melaninogenica (n = 18), P. intermedia (n = 20), P. bergensis (n = 2), P. corporis (n = 1), P. denticola (n = 5), P. disiens (n = 5), P. loescheii (n = 3), P. nanceiensis (n = 2), P. oris (n = 1), and P. tannerae (n = 1).

c

Porphyromonas asaccharolytica (n = 21) and P. somerae (n = 10).

d

Fusobacterium nucleatum (n = 22) and F. necrophorum (n = 22).

e

Finegoldia magna (n = 19), Parvimonas micra (n = 22), Peptostreptococcus anaerobius (n = 17), Peptostreptococcus stomatis (n = 6), Anaerococcus prevotii (n = 12), Anaerococcus tetradius (n = 8), Anaerococcus lactolyticus (n = 1), Anaerococcus murdochii (n = 1), Anaerococcus octavius (n = 1), Anaerococcus vaginalis (n = 5), Anaerococcus species, no PCR match (n = 3), Gemella morbillorum (n = 1), Gemella sanguinis (n = 1), Peptoniphilus asaccharolyticus (n = 21), Peptoniphilus harei (n = 7), and Peptoniphilus lacrimalis (n = 2).

f

Propionibacterium acnes (n = 21), Propionibacterium avidum (n = 11), Actinomyces israelii (n = 1), Actinomyces meyeri (n = 2), Actinomyces neuii subsp. anitratus (n = 2), Actinomyces odontolyticus (n = 3), and Actinomyces turicensis (n = 5).

g

Lactobacillus casei (n = 3) and L. rhamnosus (n = 7).

h

Atopobium parvulum (n = 1), Collinsella aerofaciens (n = 4), Eubacterium contortum (n = 1), Eubacterium cylindroides (n = 1), Eubacterium limosum (n = 8), Eubacterium saburreum (n = 2), Mogibacterium timidum (n = 3), Slackia exigua (n = 4), and Solobacterium moorei (n = 1).

i

Clostridium aldenense (n = 4), C. bolteae (n = 5), C. citroniae (n = 3), C. hathewayi (n = 4), and C. clostridioforme (n = 4).

j

Clostridium barati (n = 1), C. bifermentans (n = 1), C. butyricum (n = 2), C. cadaveris (n = 2), C. celerecrescens (n = 1), C. difficile (n = 4), C. glycolicum (n = 2), C. hylemonae (n = 2), C. paraputrificum (n = 2), C. sordellii (n = 1), C. sphenoides (n = 1), C. subterminale (n = 1), C. symbiosum (n = 2), and C. tertium (n = 2).