Improved High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic (HPLC) Assay Method for Ceftizoxime

Abstract
A high-performance liquid chromatographic method was improved for the quantitative determiation of ceftizoxime in human serum and urine using cefotaxime as internal standard. It employed a .mu. Bondapak Alkyl Phenyl column, elution with acetonitrile-PO43- buffer and measurement of UV absorption at 254 nm. Results obtained using the HPLC assay were compared to those obtained using a microbiological [Bacillus subtilis] assay. The correlation coefficient was 0.987. The method was rapid, accurate and reproducible with a sensitivity of 2.5 .mu.g/ml of ceftizoxime. Cefotaxime and its major metabolite, the desacetylcefotaxime, were also quantitated by this procedure.

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