SAN DIEGO â North County residents and businesses are adjusting to the addition of a new 442 area code.
Piperacillin/Tazobactam. Piperacillin and tazobactam are given together as injectable antibiotics for anaerobic bacterial infection. The brand name of the drug combination is Zosyn, and it contains the antibiotic piperacillin sodium and the Î²-lactamase inhibitor tazobactam sodium.
To treat such infections, a product consisting of piperacillin sodium and tazobactam sodium in an 8 to 1 ratio (as free acids), is currently marketed under the tradename ZosynÂ®. This product is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No.4,562,073 to Micetich et al.