| abstract |
This invention relates to novel substituted succinic acid metallo-.beta.- lactamase inhibitors which are useful potentiators of .beta.-lactam antibiotics. Accordingly, the present invention provides a method of treatin g bacterial infections in animals or humans which comprises administering, together with a .beta.-lactam antibiotic, a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula (I) including pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, anhydrides, and solvates thereof. |