 beta-Lactams
"beta-Lactams" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Four-membered cyclic AMIDES, best known for the PENICILLINS based on a bicyclo-thiazolidine, as well as the CEPHALOSPORINS based on a bicyclo-thiazine, and including monocyclic MONOBACTAMS. The BETA-LACTAMASES hydrolyze the beta lactam ring, accounting for BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE of infective bacteria.
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D047090
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D02.065.589.099 D02.886.108 D04.075.080.875.099.221
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Below are the most recent publications written about "beta-Lactams" by people in Profiles.
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Feldman K, Suppes SL, Goldman JL. Clarification of adverse drug reactions by a pharmacovigilance team results in increased antibiotic re-prescribing at a freestanding United States children's hospital. PLoS One. 2024; 19(1):e0295410.
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Abdel-Rahman SM, Kearns GL, Topelberg S, Jacobs RF, Mistry GC, Majumdar A, Xu Y, Wagner JA, Kitchen CJ, Groff M, Herman G, Blumer JL. Pharmacokinetics and tolerability of single-dose intravenous ertapenem in infants, children, and adolescents. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2010 Dec; 29(12):1072-6.
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Abdel-Rahman SM, Kearns GL. The beta-lactamase inhibitors: clinical pharmacology and rational application to combination antibiotic therapy. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 1998 Dec; 17(12):1185-94.
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