Parenteral yuborish uchun III avlod sefalosporin antibiotigidir. Mikroorganizmlardagi hujayra devori sintezini buzib, bakteritsid ta'sir ko'rsatadi. Keng ta'sir doirasiga ega. Boshqa antibiotiklarga chidamli grammusbat va grammanfiy mikroorganizmlarga nisbatan faol: Staphylococcus spp. (shu jumladan Staphylococcus aureus, shuningdek penitsillinaza hosil qiluvchi shtammlari), Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus agalactiae, Enterococcus species, Enterobacter spp., Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae (shu jumladan penitsillinaza hosil qiluvchi shtammlari), Haemophilus parainfluenzae, Klebsiella spp. (shu jumladan Kl.pneumoniae), Morganella morganii, Neisseria gonorrhoeae (shu jumladan penitsillinaza hosil qiluvchi shtammlari), Acinetobacter species, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Erysipelothrix insidiosa, Eubacterium spp., Propionibacterium spp., Bacillus subtilis, Clostridium spp. (shu jumladan Clostridium perfringens), Escherichia coli, Citrobacter spp., Proteus mirabilis, Proteus indole, Proteus vulgaris, Providencia spp. (shu jumladan Providencia rettgeri), Serratia spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Neisseria meningitidis, Bacteroides spp. (shu jumladan Bacteroides fragilis ning ayrim shtammlari), Fusobacterium spp. (shu jumladan Fusobacterium nucleatum), Peptococcus spp., Peptostreptococcus spp.
Grammusbat va grammanfiy mikroorganizmlarning ko'pchilik beta-laktamazalariga, stafilokokklar, Clostridium difficile ning penitsillinazasiga nisbatan chidamli.