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- noun Plural form of
beta-lactam .
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Examples
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It could disarm not only methicillin, but a vast class of similar drugs, called beta-lactams for a feature of their chemical structure.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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It could disarm not only methicillin, but a vast class of similar drugs, called beta-lactams for a feature of their chemical structure.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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It could disarm not only methicillin, but a vast class of similar drugs, called beta-lactams for a feature of their chemical structure.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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What defines MRSA, technically, is resistance to a class of antibiotics known as the beta-lactams, of which the earliest version is methicillin the "M" in MRSA and the most common current one is oxacillin.
Ars Technica WIRED 2011
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They either destroyed a bacterium by ruining the integrity of its cell wall—that was how the original penicillins, the beta-lactams, vancomycin, and the cephalosporins worked—or they penetrated inside a bacterium, disrupting synthesis of DNA or RNA or proteins, which was the mechanism of macrolides, tetracyclines, fluoroquinolones, and rifampin.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Strains of MRSA that caused community infections were originally resistant only to the beta-lactams, but many of them have now picked up at least some of the resistance factors that were originally the province of hospitals strains, including to erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline, and sulfa drugs part of the combinations Bactrim and Septra.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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It took much longer to kill bacteria in the blood than the beta-lactams did, and it did not always quell some very serious infections for which it was the last desperate attempt at a cure.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Since the community strain was resistant only to beta-lactams, Boyle-Vavra wanted to know whether its cassette looked different from the ones that had already been identified.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Most antibiotics, including the beta-lactams, rely on keeping an even level of drug in the blood over an extended period of time.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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It was resistant only to methicillin and the other beta-lactams.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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