Glycopeptide antibiotic
Glycopeptide antibiotic Glycopeptide antibiotics are a class of antibiotic drugs. They consist of a glycosylated cyclic or polycyclic nonribosomal peptide. Important glycopeptide antibiotics include vancomycin, teicoplanin, ramoplanin , and ...
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Antibiotic   (translated from German)
Antibiotic As Antibiotic (v. griech. ???? "approximately" and ???? "lives"; Majority Antibiotics ... as also specializedlinguistic use used the word "antibiotic" synonymously to "Antiinfektivum", whereby the latter (also ... Trimethoprimen begun. The second medically applicable after antibiotic that Sulfonamiden was Penicillin . Successes of penicillin ... that Penicillin , is nearly a synonym for antibiotic. Actually however today most medically used ...
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Antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic. Antibiotic resistance naturally develops via natural selection through ... exchange between bacteria of the same species. Antibiotic resistance can also be introduced artificially ...
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Category:Glycopeptide antibiotics
Category:Glycopeptide antibiotics Main article: glycopeptide antibiotic Pages in category "Glycopeptide antibiotics" There are 4 pages in this section of this category. * Glycopeptide antibiotic N Nonribosomal peptide T Teicoplanin ...
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Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
... aureus that has become resistant to the glycopeptide antibiotic vancomycin. With the increase of staphylococcal resistance ... and Brazil. It is also termed GISA (glycopeptide-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus) indicating resistance to all glycopeptide antibiotics. These bacterial strains present a thickening ... change in the target site of the antibiotic, leading to a lower affinity for ...
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Resistance to antibiotics   (translated from French)
... one microorganism to resist the effects of antibiotic . It develops by change or exchanges of ... beginning of the mass production of this antibiotic. méticilline was then the antibiotic of choice. The SARM (Staphylococcus aureus resistant ... méticilline, tétracycline and itérythromycine. vancomycine is the antibiotic which remains effective in this case for the moment. A new antibiotic class, them oxazolidinones, is available since ...
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Vancomycin
... Routes of administration intravenous Vancomycin is an antibiotic used in the prophylaxis and treatment of ... the carbapenems). With the increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistant-bacteria, vancomycin has increasingly become a ... Staphylococcus aureus infections in a patient where antibiotic resistance can reasonably be anticipated. Vancomycin hydrochloride ... sector. With vancomycin being the last-line antibiotic for serious Gram-positive infections there is ... that agricultural use of avoparcin , another similar glycopeptide antibiotic, has contributed to the emergence ...
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List of oncology-related terms
... amelanotic melanoma amifostine amikacin aminocamptothecin aminoglutethimide aminoglycoside antibiotic aminolevulinic acid aminopterin AML amonafide amoxicillin amphotericin ... antiangiogenesis antiangiogenic antibody antibody therapy anticachexia anticancer antibiotic anticarcinogenic anticoagulant anticonvulsant antidepressant antiemetic antiestrogen antifolate ... antimetabolite antimicrotubule agent antimitotic agent antineoplastic antineoplastic antibiotic antineoplaston antioxidant antiparasitic antiretroviral therapy antisense c-fos antithymocyte globulin antituberculosis antitumor antibiotic antiviral anxiolytic APC APC vaccine APC8015 apheresis ... S-transferase glycinamide ribonucleotide formyltransferase inhibitor glycolysis glycopeptide glycoprotein glycoprotein 100 glycosaminoglycan GM-CSF ...
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
... the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium that has developed antibiotic resistance to all penicillins, including methicillin and ... and exhibit varying degrees of β-lactam antibiotic resistance. Clinical presentation and concerns S. aureus ... infection control initiatives Vancomycin and teicoplanin are glycopeptide antibiotics used to treat MRSA infections. These ... of the bacterium have been found showing antibiotic resistance even to vancomycin and teicoplanin; those ...
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Daptomycin
Daptomycin Daptomycin is a lipopeptide antibiotic. It is active only against Gram-positive organisms. It is a true antibiotic in that it is a naturally occurring ... proven in vitro activity against Enterococci (including glycopeptide -resistant Enterococci (GRE)), Staphylococci (including methicillin-resistant ...
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