31138-1

Cefotaxime [Susceptibility] for meningitis by Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)

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Term Description

Susceptibility of an isolate to cefotaxime in the context of a patient with meningitis, i.e., the "meningitis breakpoint". Various agencies, including the FDA and CLSI in the U.S. and EUCAST in Europe, publish guidelines for determining susceptibility of different organisms to different antimicrobials. In most cases, susceptibility does not vary by type of infection, but for a few specific types of infection, including meningitis, pneumonia and urinary tract infection, certain antimicrobials have different susceptibility thresholds.
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Part Descriptions

LP14831-9   Cefotaxime
Cefotaxime is a third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic. Like other third-generation cephalosporins, it has broad spectrum activity against Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria. In most cases, it is equivalent to ceftriaxone in terms of safety and efficacy. Cefotaxime sodium is marketed under various trade names including Claforan (Sanofi-Aventis). Copyright Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. Source: Wikipedia, Cefotaxime (Wikipedia)

LP14831-9   Cefotaxime
Semisynthetic broad-spectrum cephalosporin. Source: National Library of Medicine, MeSH 2006

LP234793-0   Isolate.meningitis
Various agencies, including the FDA and CLSI in the U.S. and EUCAST in Europe, publish guidelines for determining susceptibility of different organisms to different antimicrobials. In most cases, susceptibility does not vary by infection site, but for a few specific types of infection, including meningitis, pneumonia and urinary tract infection, certain antimicrobials have different susceptibility thresholds, which are called "breakpoints". For terms in LOINC that represent specific breakpoints, the LOINC System will indicate the type of infection that the breakpoint is based on, for example, Isolate.meningitis, Isolate.pneumonia, and Isolate.UTI. Source: Regenstrief LOINC

Fully-Specified Name

Component

Cefotaxime

Property

Susc

Time

Pt

System

Isolate.meningitis

Scale

OrdQn

Method

MIC

Additional Names

Short Name

Cefotaxime Islt.mening MIC

Display Name

Cefotaxime MIC (Isolate.meningitis) [Susc]

Consumer Name Alpha Get Info

Susceptibility to Cefotaxime

Basic Attributes

Class

ABXBACT

Type

Laboratory

First Released

Version 2.07

Last Updated

Version 2.73

Change Reason

Moved "meningitis" from Component to System to more accurately represent that the concept means antimicrobial susceptibility result for a patient with meningitis rather than susceptibility result for a meningitis form of the antibiotic.

Order vs. Observation

Observation

Common Test Rank Get Info

6030

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Related Names

• ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITIES
• AST
• Claforan
• ID
• Infectious Disease
• InfectiousDisease
• Islt
• Islt.mening
• Isol
• Mening
• Minimum inhibitory concentration
• Point in time
• Random
• Sus
• Suscept
• Susceptibilities
• Susceptibility
• Susceptibilty

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