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Predictive accuracy of disk diffusion test for Proteus vulgaris and Providencia species against five newer orally administered cephalosporins, cefdinir, cefetamet, cefprozil, cefuroxime, and loracarbef.

Author(s): Biedenbach DJ, Jones RN

Affiliation(s): Department of Pathology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242.

Publication date & source: 1994-02, J Clin Microbiol., 32(2):559-62.

Three members of the tribe Proteeae (Proteus vulgaris, Providencia rettgeri, and Providencia stuartii) were tested against five newer orally administered cephalosporins (cefdinir, cefprozil, cefuroxime, cefetamet, and loracarbef) by the disk diffusion and reference broth microdilution methods. One hundred strains of these organisms were tested to confirm the excessive interpretive error rates that previously had been noted for the disk diffusion test. The results indicate that the suggested disk diffusion breakpoints for cefetamet and cefuroxime were without serious interpretive errors. In contrast, loracarbef, cefdinir, and cefprozil results exceeded acceptable interpretive error rates, with very major (false-susceptible) errors of 4, 5, and 9% respectively. Loracarbef currently has a warning in the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards table footnotes addressing this problem. We recommend including cefdinir and cefprozil in the list of compounds requiring this warning. In addition, MICs of cefazolin, cefaclor, and cephalothin were determined to establish whether a class MIC concept to predict susceptibility for these agents was possible. When the indole-positive Proteus strains are tested, cefazolin MICs can be used to predict MICs of all tested orally administered cephems (8 to 13% total errors, with only a 0 to 1% very major error.

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