It achieves bactericidal effect by inhibiting the synthesis of bacterial cell wall. It has bactericidal effect on a wide range of common clinical bacteria and can resist hydrolysis by multiple beta-lactamases. Bacteria sensitive to this product include Gram-positive bacteria and Gram-negative bacteria, as well as some anaerobic bacteria.

This product is a first-generation cephalosporin with a broad antibacterial spectrum and strong activity against Gram-positive bacteria. Penicillinase-producing and non-penicillinase-producing Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase-negative Staphylococcus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Group B hemolytic Streptococcus, Streptococcus viridans, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and Bacillus anthracis are all quite sensitive to this product. Enterococci, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus, Listeria, and Nocardia are resistant. Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis, Moraxella catarrhalis, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae are highly sensitive to this product. Some strains of Escherichia coli, Klebsiella, Salmonella, Shigella, and Proteus are moderately sensitive to this product, while most of the other Gram-negative rods are resistant. Gram-positive anaerobic bacteria are sensitive to this product, and Bacteroides fragilis is resistant to this product. This product mainly inhibits the synthesis of bacterial cell walls.

This product is a third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic. It has high antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and other Enterobacteriaceae, Haemophilus influenzae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc. It also has good antibacterial effects on nitrate-negative bacilli, Alcaligenes, etc. Most beta-lactamases produced by bacteria are highly stable, so it can still have antibacterial activity against multi-drug resistant strains of most of the above-mentioned Gram-negative bacilli. Gram-positive cocci such as pneumococci and hemolytic streptococci are highly sensitive to this product, but this product has only moderate activity against staphylococci, while enterococci and methicillin-resistant Staphylococci are often resistant to this product. This product has certain antibacterial activity against anaerobic bacteria such as Peptococcus and Peptostreptococci, but has poor antibacterial effect against Bacteroides fragilis. Its mechanism of action is to bind to penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) on the bacterial cell membrane, acylate the transpeptidase, inhibit the synthesis of the bacterial septum and cell wall, affect the cross-linking of the cell wall mucopeptide components, inhibit cell division and growth, elongate the bacterial morphology, and finally dissolve and die.

It achieves antibacterial effect by inhibiting the activity of bacterial DNA gyrase (bacterial topoisomerase II) and hindering the replication of bacterial DNA. It has good antibacterial effect on most Enterobacteriaceae, some Gram-positive bacteria, Legionella, Mycoplasma, and Chlamydia, but has poor effect on anaerobic bacteria and enterococci.