Treatment of the following infections caused by susceptible bacteria: Biliary tract infections; bone and joint infections; endocarditis; genitourinary tract infections; respiratory tract infections; skin and soft tissue infections; septicaemia.
It may also be used as a prophylactic, for perioperative administration to patients undergoing contaminated or potentially contaminated surgical procedures (hysterectomy, cholecystectomy, open heart surgery, bone and joint surgery), or in whom postoperative infection would be serious. In such cases it may reduce the incidence of postoperative infection.