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| Year : 2019 | Volume
: 37
| Issue : 1 | Page : 95-98 |
Relative potency of different generic brands of meropenem, colistin and fosfomycin: Implications for antimicrobial therapy and antimicrobial formulary
Parijat Das1, Bishwaranjan Jana1, Kingshuk Dhar1, Gaurav Goel1, Sanjay Bhattacharya1, Mammen Chandy2
1 Department of Microbiology, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Clinical Hematology, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Parijat Das
Tata Medical Center, 14 Major Arterial Road (E-W), New Town, Rajarhat, Kolkata - 700 160, West Bengal
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijmm.IJMM_18_248
There is a need of a relatively simple and inexpensive method for the determination of relative potency of various generic brands of antibiotics in comparison to original products. The current study describes an agar diffusion method which can be performed in any microbiology laboratory, is cheap (costs $2 per test) and its results can be available after overnight incubation. The results show that neither all generics are reliable nor are all generic antibiotics of poor quality.
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