"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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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.065.589.099 D02.886.108 D03.633.100.300
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "beta-Lactams" by people in Profiles.
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Carbapenem stewardship: does ertapenem affect Pseudomonas susceptibility to other carbapenems? A review of the evidence. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2012 Jan; 39(1):11-5.
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Direct ertapenem disk screening method for identification of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli in surveillance swab specimens. J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Mar; 48(3):836-41.
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Efficacy of ertapenem for consolidation therapy of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing gram-negative infections: a case series report. Ann Pharmacother. 2008 Feb; 42(2):207-12.
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Faropenem medoxomil. Ann Pharmacother. 2008 Jan; 42(1):80-90.
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Bowel colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci after antimicrobial therapy for intra-abdominal infections: observations from 2 randomized comparative clinical trials of ertapenem therapy. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2007 Aug; 58(4):491-4.
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Bowel colonization with resistant gram-negative bacilli after antimicrobial therapy of intra-abdominal infections: observations from two randomized comparative clinical trials of ertapenem therapy. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2005 Jul; 24(7):443-9.
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Respiratory pharmacology. Antibiotics. I. Beta-lactam antibiotics, the tetracyclines, chloramphenicol, erythromycin, clindamycin, metronidazole, and the quinolones. Clin Chest Med. 1986 Sep; 7(3):393-412.
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Broad-spectrum beta-lactam resistance in Enterobacter: emergence during treatment and mechanisms of resistance. J Antimicrob Chemother. 1983 Apr; 11(4):299-310.