Definition of oxazolidinone in US English:
oxazolidinone
nounˌäksəzōˈlidnōnˌäksəzōˈlidnōn
Any of a class of synthetic antibiotics that inhibit protein synthesis, used against Gram-positive bacteria.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is the first drug of a new class of antibiotics, the oxazolidinones.
- The most recent new class of antibiotics that I can think of are the oxazolidinones, but resistance to the first one is already showing up.
- The oxazolidinones are a new family of totally synthetic antimicrobials for which there are no pre-existing resistance genes in bacteria.
- Linezolid is a synthetic antibiotic belonging to a new class of antimicrobials called the oxazolidinones.
- A new class of drugs, oxazolidinones, is available in oral formulations that may have effectiveness comparable with vancomycin.