“…Because antibiotics are frequently administered in large doses, it is sometimes important to be able to monitor their concentrations in serum, especially in patients with impaired renal function. Several reports for the determination of penicillin antibiotics have been developed, including chemiluminescence,7, 8 potentiometry and amperometry using biosensors,9–18 potentiometric ion‐selective electrodes based on anion exchangers,19, 20 capillary electrophoresis,21 spectrophotometry,22–25 liquid chromatography,26, 32 high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC),28, 29 direct current and differential pulse polarography (DPP),30 tandem mass spectrometry,27, 32 etc . HPLC was very useful for the determination of trace penicillin antibiotics but it needed complex pretreatments.…”