Abstract
Monitoring of serum concentrations of aminoglycosidic or polymyxin antibiotics when administered concurrently with cephalosporins or penicillins requires a special assay technique. Selective enzymatic degradation of the β-lactam antibiotic from the serum specimen allows subsequent assay of the antibiotic being monitored. This report gives details of a simple procedure for laboratory production of a crude enzyme capable of degrading cephalosporins or penicillins. An assay procedure for quantitating aminoglycosidic or polymyxin antibiotics after enzymatic degradation of a coexisting β-lactam antibiotic is described.
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