Gentamicin is used to treat pneumonia, cholecystitis, peritoneal infections, septicemia, acute pyelonephritis, prostatitis, and otitis externa.
Gentamicin injection is used to treat skin and soft tissue infections, pelvic infections associated with clindamycin, endocarditis, meningitis, listeriosis, tularemia, brucellosis, plague, as well as to prevent infection during surgery, and to treat eye infections.