"Thienamycins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Beta-lactam antibiotics that differ from PENICILLINS in having the thiazolidine sulfur atom replaced by carbon, the sulfur then becoming the first atom in the side chain. They are unstable chemically, but have a very broad antibacterial spectrum. Thienamycin and its more stable derivatives are proposed for use in combinations with enzyme inhibitors.
| Descriptor ID |
D013845
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.065.589.099.124.300 D03.633.100.300.124.300
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| Concept/Terms |
Thienamycins- Thienamycins
- Antibiotics, Thienamycin
- Thienamycin Antibiotics
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thienamycins" by people in Profiles.
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Yuan J, Treadwell T. Sphingomonas paucimobilis empyema caused by remote foreign body aspiration. BMJ Case Rep. 2018 Apr 11; 2018.
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Daly JS, Dodge RA, Glew RH, Soja DT, DeLuca BA, Hebert S. Effect of zinc concentration in Mueller-Hinton agar on susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to imipenem. J Clin Microbiol. 1997 Apr; 35(4):1027-9.