Table 1.

Antimicrobial activity of azithromycin

Azithromycin has been shown to be efficacious on the following ocular pathogens:

Hemophilus influenzae

Staphylococcus aureus

Streptococcus mitis group

Streptococcus pneumoniae

CDC coryneform group G (efficacy studied in fewer than 10 infections)

Azithromycin has shown in vitro minimum inhibitory concentrations of equal or less against most (≥90%) of isolates of the following ocular pathogens:

Chlamydia pneumoniae

Chlamydia trachomatis

Legionella pneumophila

Moraxella catarrhalis

Mycoplasma hominis

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Peptostreptococcus species

Streptococci (Groups C, F, G)

Streptococcus pyogenes

Streptococcus agalactiae

Ureaplasma urealyticum

Viridans group streptococci.