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US
/ˌsɛfəˈɫɔˌspɔɹɪn/
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NOUN
- one of several broad spectrum antibiotic substances obtained from fungi and related to penicillin (trade names Mefoxin); addition of side chains has produced semisynthetic antibiotics with greater antibacterial activity
How To Use cephalosporin In A Sentence
- But eventually those stopped working, too, and in 2007 the CDC changed its guidelines and recommended treatment with yet another class of antibiotics, called cephalosporin. SFGate: Top News Stories
- Moreover, the transfer of products into Italy and France from two carve-out initiatives has reached its final stages, while there has also been progress in the construction of a new facility in Swindon dedicated to lyophilized cephalosporins, as the equipment and the operating systems have been fully commissioned, validation batches are expected to be completed in October and the site is on track for commercial production in August 2007. 1 White Man's Death Gets Attention
- Cephalosporin resistant "human pathogens" aren't increasing, says the letter, and even if they are, they're not affecting human health, and even they're affecting human health, how do you know it's from the livestock drugs, and even if it's from the livestock drugs, the FDA has no legal authority to ban cephalosporin. Martha Rosenberg: Are You Eating Antibiotics Without Knowing It? Probably!
- Overuse of antibiotics has been shown to drive the evolution of mutant strains of bacteria immune to a broad spectrum of drugs, including penicillins, cephalosporins, and quinolones.
- Drugs in the earlier generations of cephalosporins include cephalexin Keflex, cephalothin, cefazolin, cefaclor, cefotaxime, and ceftriaxone. SUPERBUG
- After performing aspiration, appropriate antibiotic therapy (including penicillin, clindamycin, cephalosporins, or metronidazole) must be initiated.
- He diagnosed mastitis and possibly shingles, and he prescribed painkillers, an antiviral, and cephalexin, a beta-lactam cephalosporin. SUPERBUG
- Its lead drug candidate is a new class of cephalosporin antibiotic that provides a two-pronged attack against drug-resistant and nonresistant bacteria.
- Enterococci are inherently resistant to cephalosporins, semi-synthetic penicillins, and clindamycin.
- Four N. gonorrhoeae isolates were found to be pencillinase producing N. gonorrhoeae by chromogenic cephalosporin technique.