- Treatment of mastitis
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The invention provides new fluorinated cephalosporin antibiotics of Formula I wherein Ra, Rb, Rc, Rdand Re, independently, are H, F or a C1-C6alkyl-(Z)n— group having at least one fluorine substituent; X is O or S; Y is S, O, or —CH2—; Z is O, S, —SO—, or —SO2—; m and n independently are 0 or 1; and R1is H, C1-C6-alkyl, phenyl or benzyl, each of which may optionally have up to three substituents selected from halo, C1-C4-alkoxy, phenyl, NO2, C1-C6-alkanoyl, benzoyl, or C1-C6-alkanoyloxy; or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof; and methods of preventing or treating or treating infection, particularly mastitis in ruminants, using these antibiotics.
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