"Penicillins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of antibiotics that contain 6-aminopenicillanic acid with a side chain attached to the 6-amino group. The penicillin nucleus is the chief structural requirement for biological activity. The side-chain structure determines many of the antibacterial and pharmacological characteristics. (Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 8th ed, p1065)
Descriptor ID |
D010406
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MeSH Number(s) |
D02.065.589.099.750 D02.886.108.750 D03.633.100.300.750
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Concept/Terms |
Penicillins- Penicillins
- Antibiotics, Penicillin
- Penicillin Antibiotics
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1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Penicillins" by people in Profiles.
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Leptospirosis: a worldwide resurgent zoonosis and important cause of acute renal failure and death in developing nations. Ethn Dis. 2009; 19(1 Suppl 1):S1-37-41.
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Thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein susceptibility phenotype influences the outcome of oxacillin prophylaxis and therapy of experimental Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2000 Nov; 44(11):3206-9.
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Outcome of primary empyema thoracis: therapeutic and microbiologic aspects. Ann Thorac Surg. 1998 Nov; 66(5):1782-6.
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Vancomycin-resistant enterococcal colonization in nonhospitalized HIV-infected patients. West J Med. 1998 Nov; 169(5):276-9.