Drugs of choice in treatment of
gonorrhea since many isolates of N
gonorrhoeae are penicillin resistant
Should not be used to treat
Enterobacter infections due to the likelihood of
resistance emergence.
Chambers, H.F., Hadley, W. K.
and Jawetz, E. Introduction to Antimicrobial Agents in
Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, (Katzung, B. G., ed)
Appleton-Lange, 1998, p 734.