There are now a t least three main types of antibacterial activity shown by different penicillins-the ordinary penicillin G type, the type shown by methicillin active against penicillinase-producing staphylococci and the. ‘ broad spectrum ’ type of activity shown by a-aminobenzylpenicillin. The inducing capacity of different penicillins can be measured by the concentration required for maximal ...

Multi-residue analysis method for penicillins was developed and validated in bovine muscle, chicken, milk, and flatfish. Detection was based on liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). The developed method was validated for specificity, precision, recovery, and linearity. The analytes were extracted with 80% acetonitrile and clean-up by a single reversed-phase solid-phase extr...

Bacterial infections are common in the neonates and are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Sixty percent of preterm infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units received at least one antibiotic during the first week of life. Penicillins, aminoglycosides and cephalosporins comprised 53, 43 and 16%, respectively. Kinetic parameters such as the half-life (t1/2), clearance (Cl), and vol...

beta-lactams are a group of antibiotics with a broad spectrum of both gram-negative and gram-positive coverage. the goal of this study is to evaluate the results from studies regarding ig-e mediated hypersensitivity to penicillin and cross-reactivity with other beta-lactams. review was conducted of both retrospective and prospective studies by searching in pubmed and medline for the original an...

Resemblances and differences between the penicillins (I) and cephalosporins (II) are considered from a chemical and biochemical point of view.

The aminoglycosides are used clinically in combination with beta-lactam antibiotics. The combined use, however, produces an interaction and inactivation of the antibiotics. A study was designed to investigate the kinetics of the interaction in vitro. Four concentrations of aminoglycosides (5 to 20 micrograms of gentamicin and tobramycin per ml) and penicillins (100 to 600 micrograms of carbenic...

Studies performed on subjects with IgE-mediated hypersensitivity to penicillins have demonstrated a 1% rate of cross-reactivity between penicillins and both imipenem and meropenem, while a single study found a 5.5% rate of cross-reactivity with imipenem/cilastatin in subjects with T-cell-mediated hypersensitivity to β-lactams, mostly penicillins. We studied 204 consecutive subjects with a well-...

London Introduction Some side-reactions to penicillin have been observed since the antibiotic first came into general use during the closing stages of the second world war. Commonly, the reactions are of a sensitivity type ranging from severe (sometimes fatal) anaphylaxis, to serum sickness-type reactions with angioneurotic oedema, pains in the muscles, fluid in the joints, and urticaria. Other...

(a) Penicillin.-Most significant developments have taken place in the field of antibiotics, especially with repository penicillins. The treatment, which used to consist of injections every 2 to 4 hours with aqueous penicillins, daily with penicillin in oil-beeswax, and sometimes once or twice weekly with procaine penicillin with aluminium monostearate, may now be achieved by a single or a few i...