BAY12-8039, iv/Oral Pulmonary Abscess/Aspiration Pneumonia

Inclusion Criteria: * Male or female patients aged 18 years or above * The primary diagnosis is community or hospital acquired primary pulmonary abscess or aspiration pneumonia, requiring initial parenteral treatment Exclusion Criteria: * Known hypersensitivity to fluoroquinolones and/or ß-lactams * Patients with mechanical ventilation lasting more than 48 hours prior to enrollment, with poststenotic pneumonia, infarction pneumonia, pulmonary tuberculosis, lung abscess/pneumonia with concomitant endocarditis