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  • adjective Of, relating to, or containing any sulfa drug.

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  • adjective Of or containing sulfanilamide.

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  • noun antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Short for sulfa(nilamide).]

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  • It can be added that trimethoprim-sulfa is used in the treatment of Pneumocystis carinii, a relatively common complication to AIDS.

    Physiology or Medicine 1988 - Press Release 1988

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  • He caught pneumonia and tried to take some kind of sulfa drug that went against his heart.

    Willie Nelson, Willie & Shrake, Edwin Bud 1992

  • The subsequent development of sulfa drugs was a milestone in biomedical sciences and a great deal of research followed as scientists throughout the world searched for more effective chemotherapies for bacterial infections.

    Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010

  • Kuhn surmised that the sulfa drugs must be competitors for the same biological receptors used by natural growth factors.

    Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010

  • He knew that one of the problems with early sulfa drugs was that they required massive doses to be effective against bacteria, often with strong side-effects.

    Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010

  • He was convinced that a normal cell's chemical affinity for the natural growth factor was far higher than that of the sulfa drugs.

    Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010

  • However, antibiotics most likely to cause severe allergic reactions (e.g., penicillins, cephalosporins and sulfa drugs) are not contained in vaccines.

    Antibiotics 2008

  • There were now several classes of antibiotics, from the penicillin derivatives to the sulfa drugs, the tetracyclines, erythromycin, and the antituberculosis drug streptomycin.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • The amount of community-strain staph that possessed inducible clindamycin resistance was still low, however, and there were still plenty of other drug options for outpatient treatment: the tetracyclines; the fluoroquinolones; the sulfa drugs; and linezolid or Zyvox, a brand-new and therefore much more expensive drug that could also be taken orally.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

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