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. 2016 Jul 22;60(8):4743–4749. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00220-16

TABLE 2.

Cumulative MIC distributions for ceftazidime and ceftazidime-avibactam against 7,062 clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa in 2012 to 2014 in four geographic regions

Isolate type or region (no. of isolates) Antimicrobial agent No. (cumulative %) of isolates inhibited at an MIC (μg/ml) ofa:
≤0.5 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 >128
All isolates (7,062) Ceftazidime 93 (1.3) 606 (9.9) 2,805 (49.6) 1,295 (68.0) 636 (77.0) 320 (81.5) 479 (88.3) 452 (94.7) 190 (97.4) 186 (100)
Ceftazidime-avibactam 167 (2.4) 1,178 (19.0) 3,241 (64.9) 1,159 (81.4) 754 (92.0) 176 (94.5) 163 (96.8) 115 (98.5) 47 (99.1) 62 (100)
MBLb negative (6,756)c Ceftazidime 93 (1.4) 606 (10.3) 2,803 (51.8) 1,295 (71.0) 630 (80.3) 285 (84.5) 390 (90.3) 364 (95.7) 163 (98.1) 127 (100)
Ceftazidime-avibactam 167(2.5) 1,178 (19.9) 3,238 (67.8) 1,159 (85.0) 742 (96.0) 130 (97.9) 68 (98.9) 43 (99.5) 15 (99.8) 16 (100)
Europe (3,893) Ceftazidime 60 (1.5) 361 (10.8) 1,542 (50.4) 711 (68.7) 339 (77.4) 178 (82.0) 272 (89.0) 255 (95.5) 94 (97.9) 81 (100)
Ceftazidime-avibactam 106 (2.7) 710 (21.0) 1,759 (66.1) 635 (82.5) 395 (92.6) 99 (95.1) 92 (97.5) 58 (99.0) 18 (99.5) 21 (100)
Asia/South Pacific (1,392) Ceftazidime 16 (1.1) 102 (8.5) 591 (50.9) 251 (69.0) 127 (78.1) 51 (81.8) 79 (87.4) 84 (93.5) 38 (96.2) 53 (100)
Ceftazidime-avibactam 32 (2.3) 208 (17.2) 691 (66.9) 218 (82.5) 148 (93.2) 17 (94.4) 12 (95.3) 21 (96.8) 17 (98.0) 28 (100)
Latin America (1,088) Ceftazidime 13 (1.2) 86 (9.1) 392 (45.1) 190 (62.6) 97 (71.5) 70 (77.9) 85 (85.8) 70 (92.2) 38 (95.7) 47 (100)
Ceftazidime-avibactam 20 (1.8) 156 (16.2) 469 (59.3) 175 (75.4) 145 (88.7) 47 (93.0) 43 (97.0) 17 (98.5) 6 (99.1) 10 (100)
Middle East/Africa (689) Ceftazidime 4 (0.6) 57 (8.9) 280 (49.5) 143 (70.2) 73 (80.8) 21 (83.9) 43 (90.1) 43 (96.4) 20 (99.3) 5 (100)
Ceftazidime-avibactam 9 (1.3) 104 (16.4) 322 (63.1) 131 (82.1) 66 (91.7) 13 (93.6) 16 (95.9) 19 (98.7) 6 (99.6) 3 (100)
a

MIC90s are in bold.

b

MBL, metallo-β-lactamase.

c

This isolate type includes carbapenem-sensitive and carbapenem-nonsusceptible metallo-β-lactamase-negative isolates.