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单词 vancomycin
释义

vancomycin

/ˌvaŋkəˈmʌɪsɪn /
noun [mass noun] Medicine
A bacterial antibiotic used against resistant strains of streptococcus and staphylococcus.
  • This antibiotic is obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces orientalis.
Other antibiotics like penicillin and vancomycin slow the bacteria's ability to manufacture cell walls....
  • MRSA infections were treated with vancomycin and one to two other antibiotics based on bacterial susceptibility.
  • Patients who become infected with MRSA are usually treated using expensive antibiotics such as vancomycin.

Origin

1950s: from vanco- (of unknown origin) + -mycin.

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