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Ceftazidime antibiotic concentration may deteriorate if stored at the wrong temperature

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has launched a medical device alert over the test disc for the antibiotic ‘Ceftazidime’, warning that storing the test discs at the wrong temperature can increase the chances of false resistance results.

The antibiotic is used to treat all sorts of bacterial infections including joint infections, sepsis, pneumonia, urinary tract infections and more. In cases where the Ceftazidime test disc was not frozen between the temperatures of +2^o and -20^o, notably at +8^o, the antibiotic’s shelf-life may have been degraded.
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