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ampicillin
[ am-puh-sil-in ]
noun
- a broad-spectrum semisynthetic penicillin, C 16 H 19 N 3 O 4 S, effective against certain susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.
ampicillin
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noun
- a semisynthetic penicillin used to treat various infections
ampicillin
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- An antibiotic derived from penicillin that has a broad antibacterial spectrum of action. It is effective against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria and is used primarily to treat gonorrhea and infections of the respiratory, urinary, and intestinal tracts.
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The strain typically resists four major antibiotics: ampicillin, streptomycin, sulfisoxazole and tetracycline.
Human and wildlife E. coli isolates also had similar levels of resistance to the same antibiotics—most commonly ampicillin, doxycycline, streptomycin, tetracycline, and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole.
Other drugs that the pathogen has overcome in the past include ampicillin, streptomycin and tetracycline.
In the United States, most Shigella is already resistant to the antibiotics ampicillin and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole.
To see if antibiotics might have had a damaging effect on the heart, Orihuela's team infected mice with bacterial pneumonia and gave them high doses of the antibiotic ampicillin when heart lesions appeared.
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