 beta-Lactamases
"beta-Lactamases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Enzymes found in many bacteria which catalyze the hydrolysis of the amide bond in the beta-lactam ring. Well known antibiotics destroyed by these enzymes are penicillins and cephalosporins.
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D001618
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.277.087.180
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| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "beta-Lactamases" by people in Profiles.
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Islam S, Selvarangan R, Kanwar N, McHenry R, Chappell JD, Halasa N, Wikswo ME, Payne DC, Azimi PH, McDonald LC, Gomez-Duarte OG. Intestinal Carriage of Third-Generation Cephalosporin-Resistant and Extended-Spectrum ?-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Healthy US Children. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2018 Aug 17; 7(3):234-240.
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Das S, Adler AL, Miles-Jay A, Kronman MP, Qin X, Weissman SJ, Burnham CA, Elward A, Newland JG, Selvarangan R, Sullivan KV, Zaoutis T, Zerr DM. Antibiotic Prophylaxis Is Associated with Subsequent Resistant Infections in Children with an Initial Extended-Spectrum-Cephalosporin-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Infection. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2017 05; 61(5).
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Kanwar N, Scott HM, Norby B, Loneragan GH, Vinasco J, McGowan M, Cottell JL, Chengappa MM, Bai J, Boerlin P. Effects of ceftiofur and chlortetracycline treatment strategies on antimicrobial susceptibility and on tet(A), tet(B), and bla CMY-2 resistance genes among E. coli isolated from the feces of feedlot cattle. PLoS One. 2013; 8(11):e80575.
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Cottell JL, Kanwar N, Castillo-Courtade L, Chalmers G, Scott HM, Norby B, Loneragan GH, Boerlin P. blaCTX-M-32 on an IncN plasmid in Escherichia coli from beef cattle in the United States. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2013 Feb; 57(2):1096-7.
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Harrison CJ, Woods C, Stout G, Martin B, Selvarangan R. Susceptibilities of Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, including serotype 19A, and Moraxella catarrhalis paediatric isolates from 2005 to 2007 to commonly used antibiotics. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2009 Mar; 63(3):511-9.
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