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Piperacillin is an extended spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic of the ureidopenicillin class. These are unremarkably utilized together sustaining a beta-lactamase inhibitor tazobactam to form Tazocin® or Zosyn® (marketed by Wyeth-Ayerst). A combination has activity against several Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens and anaerobes, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Piperacillin/tazobactam is administered intravenously. Its independent utilizes come inside intensive care medicine (pneumonia, peritonitis), some diabetes-related foot infections and empirical therapy in febrile neutropenia (e.g. when chemotherapy).
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