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cephalosporinases

cephalosporinases is the plural of cephalosporinase.

Meaning of cephalosporinase

Noun

cephalosporinase (plural cephalosporinases)

  1. Any enzyme that hydrolyses (the lactam ring of a ) cephalosporin
    • Resistance to β-lactams is mainly due to enzymatic degradation by a chromosomal cephalosporinase, plasmid-mediated broad spectrum β-lactamases, and recently acquired carbapenemases [4, 6, 7, 9 –14 ].2015 September 24, “In Vivo Evolution of Bacterial Resistance in Two Cases of Enterobacter aerogenes Infections during Treatment with Imipenem”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about cephalosporinases

What is cephalosporinases the plural of?
Cephalosporinases is the plural of cephalosporinase.

Words near cephalosporinases in the dictionary

  1. cephalosporanic
  2. cephalosporanic acid
  3. cephalosporidine
  4. cephalosporin
  5. cephalosporinase
  6. cephalosporinases
  7. cephalosporine
  8. cephalosporines
  9. cephalosporins
  10. cephalostat
  11. cephalostatin

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