Vancomycin

/ˌvæŋ.kəˈmaɪ.sɪn/

Synonyms for "vancomycin" (4 found)

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Noun(1 words)

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Noun(1 words)
glycopeptide antibiotic

Related words (2)

Noun(1 words)

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4 entries
antibioticantibiotic drugdrugpharmaceutical agent

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2 entries
vancomycin basevancomycin hydrochloride

Collocations

6 entries
MRSA infectioncell wall synthesis inhibitionglycopeptide antibioticintravenous administrationnephrotoxicity risktrough level monitoring

Inflections

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigators describe how the change made vancomycin 1,000 times more effective against both drug-resistant enterococci and the original forms of the microorganism.

Source: tatoeba (12251017)

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, modified vancomycin, invented 60 years ago and considered a last-resort treatment against many of these infections. They made a key change to its molecular structure, interfering with how the bacterium, enterococcus, makes protective cell walls.

Source: tatoeba (12251027)

Vancomycin was given intravenously in doses of 0.5 gm. at 6-hour intervals for periods of up to 4 weeks to 9 patients, all of whom had staphylococcal infections.

Source: wiktionary

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