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- noun biochemistry any
compound of acarbohydrate and apeptide
Etymologies
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Examples
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It has developed several types of resistance to vancomycin, a glycopeptide, which for decades was the MRSA drug of last resort, and is beginning to exhibit resistance to drugs in newly developed families that were intended to replace vancomycin: linezolid (Zyvox), an oxazolidinone, and daptomycin (marketed as Cubicin), a lipopeptide.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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It was a new class of drug, a glycopeptide, which meant that bacteria had no prior experience in how to defeat it.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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That is partly because it is a glycopeptide, a separate class of drug from penicillin and methicillin.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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It was a new class of drug, a glycopeptide, which meant that bacteria had no prior experience in how to defeat it.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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It has developed several types of resistance to vancomycin, a glycopeptide, which for decades was the MRSA drug of last resort, and is beginning to exhibit resistance to drugs in newly developed families that were intended to replace vancomycin: linezolid (Zyvox), an oxazolidinone, and daptomycin (marketed as Cubicin), a lipopeptide.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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That is partly because it is a glycopeptide, a separate class of drug from penicillin and methicillin.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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It has developed several types of resistance to vancomycin, a glycopeptide, which for decades was the MRSA drug of last resort, and is beginning to exhibit resistance to drugs in newly developed families that were intended to replace vancomycin: linezolid (Zyvox), an oxazolidinone, and daptomycin (marketed as Cubicin), a lipopeptide.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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It was a new class of drug, a glycopeptide, which meant that bacteria had no prior experience in how to defeat it.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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That is partly because it is a glycopeptide, a separate class of drug from penicillin and methicillin.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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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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