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. 2020 Jul 22;64(8):e02240-19. doi: 10.1128/AAC.02240-19

TABLE 1.

MICs of tebipenem against selected bacterial pathogensa

Organism(s) Phenotype n Tebipenem MIC (μg/ml)
Ertapenem MIC (μg/ml)
Meropenem MIC (μg/ml)
Range 50%/90% Range 50%/90% Range 50%/90%
Gram negative
    E. coli Non-ESBL producing 79 ≤0.015 to 0.12 ≤0.015/0.03 ≤0.015 to 0.12 ≤0.015/≤0.015 NA NA
ESBL producing 21 ≤0.015 to 0.12 0.03/0.06 ≤0.015 to 0.5 0.03/0.5 NA NA
AmpC producing 6 0.03 to 0.12 NA 0.03 to 1 NA 0.03–0.06 NA
    Klebsiella pneumoniae Non-ESBL producing 158 ≤0.015 to 0.12 0.03/0.06 ≤0.015 to 0.03 ≤0.015/≤0.015 NA NA
ESBL producing 50 0.03 to >32 0.03/>32 ≤0.015 to >32 0.12/>32 NA NA
ESBL producing, excluding CRE 41 0.03 to 4 0.03/0.25 ≤0.015 to >32 0.06/2 NA NA
AmpC producing 3 0.03 to 0.25 NA ≤0.015 to 0.25 NA 0.03 to 0.06 NA
CRE 9 1 to >32 NA 8 to >32 NA NA NA
    Proteus spp. Non-ESBL producing 94 0.03 to 0.5 0.06/0.12 0.03 to 0.5 0.12/0.25 NA NA
ESBL producing 18 0.12 to 4 0.5/2 ≤0.12 to 4 0.12/0.5 0.03 to 4 0.12/0.5
AmpC producing 13 0.12 to 2 0.5/1 ≤0.015 to 0.25 0.03/0.12 0.06 to 0.5 0.12/0.5
    Pseudomonas aeruginosa Wild type 11 2 to 16 4/8 1 to 16 4/16 0.06 to 4 0.25/1
Non-wild type 45 4 to >32 >32/>32 8 to >32 >32/>32 0.5 to >32 16/>32
Gram positive
    Staphylococcus aureus MSSA 10 ≤0.015 to 0.06 0.03/0.03 0.12 to 0.25 0.25/0.25 0.06 to 0.25 0.12/0.12
MRSA 10 0.5 to 32 2/16 2 to >32 4/>32 2 to >32 4/32
    Staphylococcus epidermidis MSSE 10 0.004 to 0.03 0.03 0.015 to 0.25 0.25/0.25 0.015 to 0.12 0.06/0.12
MRSE 10 0.06 to 8 4/4 1 to >32 4/>32 0.25 to 32 4/16
    Enterococcus faecalis 10 1 to 2 2/2 8 to 16 8/16 4 to 8 8/8
    Enterococcus faecium 10 2 to >32 >32/>32 16 to >32 >32/>32 16 to >32 >32/>32
    Streptococcus pneumoniae PSSP 10 0.002 to 0.06 0.004/0.06 0.015 to 0.25 0.015/0.25 0.008 to 0.25 0.015/0.12
PNSSP 10 0.12 to 0.5 0.25/0.5 1 to 2 2/2 0.5 to 1 1/1
    Streptococcus pyogenes 20 0.002 to 0.004 0.004/0.004 0.004 to 0.015 0.015/0.015 0.002 to 0.008 0.008/0.008
a

ESBL, extended-spectrum β-lactamase; CRE, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales; MRSA, methicillin-resistant S. aureus; MSSA, methicillin-susceptible S. aureus; MSSE, methicillin-susceptible S. epidermidis; MRSE, methicillin-resistant S. epidermidis; PSSP, penicillin-susceptible S. pneumoniae; PNSSP, penicillin-nonsusceptible S. pneumoniae as defined by CLSI document M100 (29th edition) criteria for parenteral penicillin (nonmeningitis) MICs of ≥4 μg/ml (28); NA, not available.