Indicated for treatment, in adults and children, of the following infections caused by single or multiple bacteria sensitive to meropenem; pneumonias and nosocomial pneumonias; urinary tract infections; intra-abdominal infections; gynaecological infections, such as endometritis and pelvic inflammatory disease; bacterial meningitis; septicaemia; empiric treatment, for presumed infections in patients with febrile neutropenia, used as monotherapy or in combination with anti-viral or anti-fungal agents.
Meropenem has proved efficacious alone or in combination with other antimicrobial agents in the treatment of polymicrobial infections.