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ampicillin

[ am-puh-sil-in ]

noun

Pharmacology.
  1. 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

/ ˌæ³¾±èɪˈ²õɪ±ôɪ²Ô /

noun

  1. a semisynthetic penicillin used to treat various infections
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ampicillin

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  1. 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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Origin of ampicillin1

First recorded in 1965–70; probably am(inobenzyl)p(en)icillin, an alternate chemical name
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The strain typically resists four major antibiotics: ampicillin, streptomycin, sulfisoxazole and tetracycline.

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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.

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Other drugs that the pathogen has overcome in the past include ampicillin, streptomycin and tetracycline.

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In the United States, most Shigella is already resistant to the antibiotics ampicillin and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole.

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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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