Category: Health
Created by: marija.horvat
Number of Blossarys: 21
Aminoglycoside is a medicinal and bacteriologic category of traditional Gram-negative antibacterial therapeutic agents that inhibit protein synthesis and contain as a portion of the molecule an ...
Ansamycins is a family of secondary metabolites that show antimicrobial activity against many Gram-positive and some Gram-negative bacteria and includes various compounds. In addition, these ...
An antibiotic is an agent that either kills or inhibits the growth of a microorganism. The term derives from "anti" which means against, and Greek "biotikos" which means "fit ...
Carbacephems are a class of synthetic antibiotics, based on the structure of cephalosporin, a cephem. Carbacephems are similar to cephems, but with a carbon substituted for the sulfur. It prevents ...
The cephalosporins are a class of β-lactam antibiotics originally derived from the fungus Acremonium, which was previously known as "Cephalosporium". Together with cephamycins, they ...
There are 2 groups within the 2nd generation agents that differ in their: 1) spectrum of activity and 2) adverse reaction profile. These groups are the "true" second generation cephalosporins ...
They have the excellent activity against Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa which is similar to ceftazidime. In addition, they also have better gram-positive activity than ceftazidime.