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teicoplanin

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  • noun pharmacology Any of several glycopeptide antibiotics used against Gram-positive bacteria

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Examples

  • Cynthia Gibert desperately tried one antibiotic after another on her 57-year-old kidney patient, but no matter which tablets, capsules or even IVs she gave him-from plain-vanilla ampicillin to fancy experimental teicoplanin-the man's blood was still flooded with enterococcus bacteria, which were slowly poisoning his red blood cells.

    The End Of Antibiotics 2008

  • There were no reports of vancomycin or teicoplanin resistance in 2007.

    ThePigSite - Global Pig Industry News Feeds 2010

  • "Comparison of vancomycin, teicoplanin, metronidazole, and fusidic acid for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea".

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • "Comparison of vancomycin, teicoplanin, metronidazole, and fusidic acid for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea".

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Comparative susceptibility of European Gram-positive pathogens to ceftobiprole, vancomycin, teicoplanin and linezolid.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2009

  • Osteomyelitis was treated with parenteral teicoplanin, oral rifampicin and azithromycin.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Shazia Adalat and Clive Graham Andrew I Riordan 2008

  • By heating up about a cupful of soil in the presence of a detergent, Brady and graduate student Jacob Banik were able to separate the DNA from the dirt and scan the genetic material for a gene sequence called OxyC that is common to the family of antibiotics including vancomycin and teicoplanin.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2008

  • | title = Comparison of vancomycin, teicoplanin, metronidazole, and fusidic acid for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea | journal = Clin.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • | title = Comparison of vancomycin, teicoplanin, metronidazole, and fusidic acid for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea | journal = Clin.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

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