TABLE 6.
Final concentrations of calibration standards and quality control levels for the antibiotics
| Antibiotic | Final concn (μg/ml) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calibration standards |
Quality controls |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | QC LLOQ | QC low | QC medium | QC high | QC ALOQa | |
| Cefepime | 0.500 | 1.00 | 5.00 | 10.0 | 25.0 | 50.0 | 100 | 150 | 0.500 | 1.50 | 75.0 | 120 | 480 | |
| Meropenem | 0.100 | 0.250 | 0.500 | 1.00 | 5.00 | 10.0 | 50.0 | 100 | 150 | 0.100 | 0.300 | 75.0 | 120 | 480 |
| Piperacillin | 0.100 | 0.500 | 1.00 | 5.00 | 10.0 | 50.0 | 100 | 150 | 0.100 | 0.300 | 75.0 | 120 | 480 | |
| Tazobactam | 0.250 | 0.500 | 1.00 | 5.00 | 10.0 | 50.0 | 100 | 150 | 0.250 | 0.750 | 75.0 | 120 | 480 | |
a
ALOQ, above the limit of quantification.