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  • noun biochemistry A compound that inhibits the action of bacterial beta-lactamases, used in antibiotics.

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  • In nine years at Lederle Laboratories after a first career as a physician, Tally had already supervised three: cefixime, tigecycline, and the combination piperacillin/tazobactam, at the time the bestselling injectable antibiotic in the world.26 It was widely known in the pharma world that he had left Lederle the year before to join Cubist Pharmaceuticals, and it was expected that he was looking for a fourth good drug.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • In nine years at Lederle Laboratories after a first career as a physician, Tally had already supervised three: cefixime, tigecycline, and the combination piperacillin/tazobactam, at the time the bestselling injectable antibiotic in the world.26 It was widely known in the pharma world that he had left Lederle the year before to join Cubist Pharmaceuticals, and it was expected that he was looking for a fourth good drug.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • In nine years at Lederle Laboratories after a first career as a physician, Tally had already supervised three: cefixime, tigecycline, and the combination piperacillin/tazobactam, at the time the bestselling injectable antibiotic in the world.26 It was widely known in the pharma world that he had left Lederle the year before to join Cubist Pharmaceuticals, and it was expected that he was looking for a fourth good drug.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • The current Cubist clinical development pipeline includes CXA-201, a novel cephalosporin in combination with tazobactam in development for the treatment of certain serious infections caused by multi-drug resistant MDR Gram-negative organisms.

    unknown title 2011

  • The current Cubist clinical development pipeline includes CXA-201, a novel cephalosporin in combination with tazobactam in development for the treatment of certain serious infections caused by multi-drug resistant MDR Gram-negative organisms.

    unknown title 2011

  • Antibiotics providing the best activity rate were imipenem/cilastatin (68%) and piperacillin/tazobactam (53%).

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Pascal Augustin 2010

  • And finally, more recently, we were pleased to announce last week the launch of piperacillin and tazobactam in the US.

    Hospira, Inc CEO Discusses Q3 2010 - Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha 2010

  • For patients with suspected or proven polymicrobial infections involving Gram-negative and/or anaerobic bacteria in addition to the Gram-positive organisms for which study medication therapy was used, aztreonam, piperacillin-tazobactam, and/or metronidazole were allowed.

    BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories 2010

  • CXA-201 is a combination of CXA-101 and the beta-lactamase inhibitor tazobactam.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

  • The best adequacy for EA was obtained by combinations of imipenem/cilastatin or piperacillin/tazobactam, amikacin and a glycopeptide, with values reaching 99% and 94%, respectively.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Pascal Augustin 2010

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