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Clinical Chemistry 54: 218-220, 2008; 10.1373/clinchem.2007.096412
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(Clinical Chemistry. 2008;54:218-220.)
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Drug Monitoring and Toxicology (DMT)

Sarah Neale1, Anne Brown2, Jinny Jeffery1 and Ruth M Ayling1,a

1 Departments of Clinical Biochemistry, Derriford Hospital Plymouth and 2 Southmead Hospital Bristol

aAddress correspondence to this author at: Dr Ruth M Ayling, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth PL6 8DH, UK, Fax: 01752 792400; e-mail ruthayling@clinicalbiochemistry.org.uk

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Tazocin is an injectable antibiotic preparation with broad-spectrum activity against aerobic and anaerobic gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria (1). Reported side effects that might prompt metabolic disease investigations include change in consciousness and encephalopathy (2)(3). We report 2 patients in whom interpretation of organic acid analysis was complicated by administration of tazocin.

Case 1 was a 56-year-old man admitted for routine aortobifemoral bypass graft surgery. Past medical history included peripheral vascular disease, hypercholesterolemia, and epilepsy. Postoperatively the patient developed an acute abdomen and at laparotomy required extensive small bowel resection to . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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