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. 2020 May 7;9:e49206. doi: 10.7554/eLife.49206

Table 2. Overview of antibiotic treatments showing the ten most used antibiotics in this patient cohort.

Intravenous (iv), oral (or), and intramuscular (im) route administration is given in percent of treatment days.

Antibiotic Number of treated patients (total n=133) Route
Ceftriaxone 64 ( 98% iv , 2% im )
Ciprofloxacin 34 ( 67% iv , 33% or )
Metronidazole 20 ( 50% iv , 50% or )
Cefuroxime 13 ( 100% iv , 0% or )
Vancomycin 13 ( 86% iv , 14% or )
Meropenem 10 ( 100% iv , 0% or )
Amikacin 9 ( 100% iv , 0% or )
Amoxicillin-clavulanic acid 9 ( 57% iv , 43% or )
Piperacillin-tazobactam 7 ( 100% iv , 0% or )
Imipenem 5 ( 100% iv , 0% or )