Cephalosporins are a broad class of bactericidal antibiotics that include the β-lactam ring and share a structural similarity and mechanism of action with...
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of antiandrogens Discovery and development of cephalosporins Retrometabolic drug design "The drug development process". US Food and Drug Administration...
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of β-lactam antibiotics called cephems. Cephalosporins were discovered in 1945, and first sold in 1964. The aerobic mold which yielded cephalosporin C...
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Beta-lactam antibiotics (section Mechanism of action)
includes penicillin derivatives (penams), cephalosporins and cephamycins (cephems), monobactams, carbapenems and carbacephems. Most β-lactam antibiotics...
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discovery and production of many other cephalosporins. Cephalosporins are drugs used for some people who are allergic to penicillin. Cephalosporins are...
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Giuseppe Brotzu (category Members of the Regional Council of Sardinia)
PMID 10208039. Cephalosporin Discovery and development of cephalosporins Bo G (2000). "Giuseppe Brotzu and the discovery of cephalosporins". Clinical Microbiology...
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Cefpodoxime (category Cephalosporin antibiotics)
gonorrhea. It also finds use as oral continuation therapy when intravenous cephalosporins (such as ceftriaxone) are no longer necessary for continued treatment...
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Cefoxitin (category Cephalosporin antibiotics)
cephalosporins. Cefoxitin requires a prescription and as of 2010 is sold under the brand name Mefoxin by Bioniche Pharma, LLC. The generic version of...
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Edward Abraham (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
commercially sold cephalosporin antibiotic Cefalotin sold by Eli Lilly and Company. There are now five generations of cephalosporins, of which some are among...
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Carbapenem (section Spectrum of activity)
(MDR) bacterial infections. Similar to penicillins and cephalosporins, carbapenems are members of the beta-lactam antibiotics drug class, which kill bacteria...
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Penicillin (category Drugs developed by Eli Lilly and Company)
avoidance, 90% of these patients can eventually tolerate penicillin. Additionally, those with penicillin allergies can usually tolerate cephalosporins (another...
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Beta-lactamase (category Enzymes of known structure)
multi-resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics such as penicillins, cephalosporins, cephamycins, monobactams and carbapenems (ertapenem), although carbapenems are relatively...
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Cefotaxime (category Cephalosporin antibiotics)
antibiotic in the third-generation class of cephalosporins, cefotaxime is active against numerous Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, including several...
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Ceftriaxone (category Cephalosporin antibiotics)
Providencia, and Serratia, have the ability to become resistant through the development of cephalosporinases (enzymes that hydrolyze cephalosporins and render...
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history of penicillin follows observations and discoveries of evidence of antibiotic activity of the mould Penicillium that led to the development of penicillins...
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Pharmaceutical industry (redirect from History of the pharmaceutical industry)
claims. The aftermath of World War II saw an explosion in the discovery of new classes of antibacterial drugs including the cephalosporins (developed by Eli...
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Alexander Fleming (category Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh)
Penicillins and Cephalosporins. Academic Press. pp. xxii. ISBN 978-1-4832-7719-6. Ward, John W.; Warren, Christian (2006). Silent Victories: The History and Practice...
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Impetigo (section Signs and symptoms)
Alternatively, amoxicillin combined with clavulanate potassium, cephalosporins (first-generation) and many others may also be used as an antibiotic treatment...
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Antibiotic (redirect from History of antibiotics)
(penicillins and cephalosporins) or the cell membrane (polymyxins), or interfere with essential bacterial enzymes (rifamycins, lipiarmycins, quinolones, and sulfonamides)...
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from tetracycline and nitrofurantoin, but 10–20% of P. mirabilis strains are also resistant to first-generation cephalosporins and ampicillin. P. mirabilis...
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Thienamycin (section Mechanism of action)
(penicillins, cephalosporins). Production of classic β-lactams in both fungi and bacteria occur through two steps: First, the condensation of l-cysteine...
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Italian inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, by Italians. Italian...
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Howard Florey (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
pp. 269–272. Bo G (2000). "Giuseppe Brotzu and the discovery of cephalosporins". Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 6 (Suppl 3): 6–9. doi:10.1111/j...
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"Treatment of typhoid fever and other systemic salmonelloses with cefotaxime, ceftriaxone, cefoperazone, and other newer cephalosporins". Reviews of Infectious...
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Due to the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming, and the efforts of Florey and Chain in 1938, large-scale, pharmaceutical production of antibiotics...
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Latamoxef (category Cephalosporin antibiotics)
antibiotic usually grouped with the cephalosporins. In oxacephems such as latamoxef, the sulfur atom of the cephalosporin core is replaced with an oxygen...
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Natural product (redirect from List of natural product drugs)
including penicillin and the cephalosporins (antibacterial drugs from Penicillium rubens and Cephalosporium acremonium, respectively) and griseofulvin (an...
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industrially to produce the sugar alcohol erythritol.[citation needed] "Discovery and Development of Penicillin". American Chemical Society, International Historic...
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Serratia marcescens (redirect from Blood of Christ bacterium)
ampicillin, macrolides, and first-generation cephalosporins (such as cephalexin). In elkhorn coral, S. marcescens is the cause of the disease known as white...
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Flucloxacillin (section Mechanism of action)
history of allergy to penicillins, cephalosporins, or carbapenems. It should also not be used in the eye, or administered to those with a history of cholestatic...
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