noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any lactamase that can hydrolyze carbapenem antibiotics and thus provide resistance to them countable, uncountable

Etymology

From carbapenem + -ase.

Related phrases

klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase

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