The synergistic activities of netilmicin, gentamicin and amikacin combined with carbenicillin, ticarcillin, azlocillin and mezlocillin were investigated against 32 Serratia marcescens isolates. Synergy could be demonstrated by killing curve technique, isobologram plots as susceptibility data with any of the aminoglycosides and penicillins combinations. No antagonism was shown with any of the co...

FEW infections can kill a human being as rapidly as acute staphylococcal endocarditis in its most fulminant form. Infections caused by penicillinase producing staphylococci have been particularly difficult to manage. Successful treatment has been 'accomplished by combinations of antibiotics, by vancomycin, and even by huge doses of penicillin G. Still, the problem of therapy remains formidable....