Cefixime Description

Cefixime, an antibiotic, is a third-generation cephalosporin like ceftriaxone and cefotaxime. Cefixime is awful abiding in the attendance of beta-lactamase enzymes. As a result, abounding bacilli aggressive to penicillins and some cephalosporins due to the attendance of beta-lactamases, may be affected to cefixime. The antibacterial aftereffect of cefixime after-effects from inhibition of mucopeptide amalgam in the bacterial corpuscle wall.

For use in the analysis of the afterward infections if acquired by affected strains of the appointed microorganisms:

(1) apprehensible urinary amplitude infections acquired by Escherichia coli and Proteus mirabilis,

(2) otitis media acquired by Haemophilus influenzae (beta-lactamase absolute and abrogating strains), Moraxella catarrhalis (most of which are beta-lactamase positive), and S. pyogenes,

(3) pharyngitis and tonsillitis acquired by S. pyogenes,

(4) astute bronchitis and astute exacerbations of abiding bronchitis acquired by Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae (beta-lactamase absolute and abrogating strains)

(5) apprehensible gonorrhea (cervical/urethral) acquired by Neisseria gonorrhoeae (penicillinase- and non-penicillinase-producing strains).