Table 1.

General description of the amikacin products studied

Amikacin product	Form	Demonstrated pharmaceutical equivalencea	Batch	Manufacturer	Distributor
BMS (innovator)	1 g in 4 ml	Not applicable	99A106	Grove, Ecuador	The manufacturer
	0.5 g in 2 ml		00G030 05H091A	Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ecuador
Carlon	0.5 g in 2 ml	Yes	111V0203	Carlon, Colombia	The manufacturer
FormasG	0.5 g in 2 ml	No	02525	Vitropharma, Colombia	Formas genericas farmaceuticas, Colombia
Gencol	0.25 g in 2 ml	Yes	0100 0200	Chalver, Colombia	The manufacturer
Genven	0.5 g in 2 ml	No	904037	Leti for Genven, Venezuela	The manufacturer
Pisa	0.5 g in 2 ml	Yes	060865 011306	PiSa, Mexico	ECAR, Colombia
Quimicol	0.5 g in 2 ml	No	3780199	Quimicol, Colombia	The manufacturer
Scalpi	0.5 g in 2 ml	Yes	AK030072	Farmionni-Lubelca, Colombia	Farmionni scalpi, Colombia
Serpharma	0.25 g in 2 ml	No	AK020086	Farmionni-Lubelca, Colombia	Serpharma, Colombia
	0.1 g in 2 ml		AK010172
Sigma (reference)	1 g powder	Yes	120K1643	Sigma Chemical Co, USA	The manufacturer
Zokumey	0.25 g in 2 ml	No	AK020035	Farmionni-Lubelca, Colombia	Zokumey pharma, Colombia

^aThe pharmaceutical equivalence (same potency and concentration of the active ingredient) tested by microbiological assay was published elsewhere [8]