Prolonged Use of Ertapenem to Treat Infected Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Table 1

Microorganisms that ertapenem has in vitro and clinical activity against.

Aerobic and facultative gram-positive microorganisms	Aerobic and facultative gram-negative microorganisms	Anaerobic microorganisms
Staphylococcus aureus (methicillin susceptible isolates only)	Escherichia coli	Bacteroides fragilis
Streptococcus agalactiae	Haemophilus influenzae (beta-lactamase negative isolates only)	Bacteroides distasonis
Streptococcus pneumoniae (penicillin susceptible isolates only)	Klebsiella pneumoniae	Bacteroides ovatus
Streptococcus pyogenes		Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
		Bacteroides uniformis
	Moraxella catarrhalis	Clostridium clostridioforme
	Proteus mirabilis	Eubacterium lentum
		Peptostreptococcus species
		Porphyromonas asaccharolytica
		Prevotella bivia