[Use of a semisynthetic broad-spectrum penicillin (ampicillin) in surgical practice]. / Primenenie polusinteticheskogo penitisillina shirokogo spektra deistviia (ampitsillina) v khirurgicheskoi praktitke.

Parenterally ampicillin was used for the treatment of 87 patients with lung and abdominal diseases, liver abscesses, extremity phlegmonas, osteomyelitis and other diseases. The antibiotic was administered intravenously and intramuscularly. High efficacy of the treatment was observed in all the cases with ampicillin sensitive microflora. In some cases a satisfactory therapeutic effect was observed only with the use of ampicillin in combination with other antibiotics and aminoglycosides in particular. No side effects of the antibiotic were registered.