Faropenem Susceptibility Data for Five Bacterial Pathogens from Four Chinese Hospitals

2,032 bacterial isolates were collected from four major Chinese hospitals between 2019 and 2021 to establish tentative epidemiological cutoff values for the antibiotic faropenem. The dataset includes minimum inhibitory concentration and inhibition zone diameter results for Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Author Shi Wu published the data under a CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare.

Use Cases

• Establishing clinical breakpoints for faropenem based on the reported MIC and inhibition zone diameter TECOFFs.
• Analyzing the distribution of wild-type and non-wild-type strains for five common bacterial pathogens.
• Comparing susceptibility testing results between the broth microdilution and disk diffusion methods described.
• Studying antimicrobial resistance patterns in clinical isolates from major Chinese hospitals between 2019 and 2021.

Strengths

• Contains data for 2,032 bacterial isolates, providing a substantive sample size for analysis.
• Specifies exact MIC and inhibition zone diameter cutoff values for five distinct bacterial species.
• Data originates from four major teaching hospitals, suggesting a multi-center collection effort.
• The methodology for defining wild-type strains is explicitly described in the source.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is limited to four hospitals in China, which may reflect geographic bias.

Provenance

Source

Peking University First Hospital, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Huashan Hospital (Fudan University), and Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital (Zhejiang University School of Medicine).

Collection Method

Isolates were collected and susceptibility was determined using broth microdilution and disk diffusion methods in clinical microbiology laboratories.

Time Range

2019 to 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 05:48:36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China (hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou)