“…Along with increasing bacterial resistance, combined application of antimicrobial agents and enzyme inhibitors has become more common in clinical practice. Analytical methods for the simultaneous determination of ® ‐lactam antibiotics and ® ‐lactamase inhibitors have been widely reported (Reitberg et al, ; Tsou et al, ; Tsujikawa et al, ; Zhou et al, ; Carlier et al, ; Sime, Roberts, Roberts, & Robertson, ; Cielecka‐Piontek et al, ; Zalewski, Cielecka‐Piontek, & Paczkowska, ; Abdulla, Bahmany, Wijma, van der Nagel, & Koch, ; Bellur Atici, Yazar, Ağtaş, Ridvanoğlu, & Karlığa, ). In particular for cefoperazone and sulbactam, although several methods have been reported, these methods still have many limitations in pediatric TDM, such as large volume sample, or high limit of detection.…”