A new cephalosporin with a highly reactive beta-lactam ring was found to give an immediate color change in the presence of beta-lactamases from many bacteria, including staphylococci, Bacillus species, Enterobacteriaceae, and Pseudomonas. The reaction is confined to organisms producing beta-lactamases, but it is sufficiently sensitive to indicate the presence of this enzyme is small amounts in ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE AmpC β lactamases are one of the important causes of drug resistance in gram negative bacteria. Failure to detect these enzymes in the laboratory has contributed to therapeutic failures but there are till date no standard guideline available. This study was therefore undertaken to evaluate three phenotypic laboratory tests and the inhibitors used in two of the tests to ...

β-lactam is the most used antibiotic class in the clinical area and it acts on blocking the bacteria cell wall synthesis, causing cell death. However, some bacteria have evolved resistance to these antibiotics mainly due the production of enzymes known as β-lactamases. Hospital sewage is an important source of dispersion of multidrug-resistant bacteria in rivers and oceans. In this work, we use...

Infections caused by bacteria have a significant impact on public health. Chemical synthesis of new derivatives cephalexin inked to amino acid (tryptophan or histidine) through an amide bond at the acyl side chain is achieved. This new
 approach incorporating, tryptophan and histidine into primary group cephalexin, in order provide bulky very close ?-lactam ring. chemical addition act as i...