FDA inspectors found serious problems at a Glenmark factory in India that manufactured the recalled drugs. Another medication ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Beta-lactam antibiotics are the most widely used class of drugs for the treatment of bacterial infections. They include penicillin and its derivatives, such as methicillin and amoxicillin, as well as ...

The drug – a combination of beta-lactam antibiotic aztreonam with beta-lactamase inhibitor avibactam – is the first monobactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combination to be cleared in the US for ...

Today, severe allergic reactions to penicillins and other beta-lactam antibiotics are rare. People with a potential penicillin allergy are often warned against taking beta-lactam antibiotics and ...

Qpex presented the results of several clinical trials of xeruborbactam in tandem with established beta-lactam antibiotics at last year’s ID Week Meeting in Washington DC. These will slot into ...

The following is a summary of “Impact of aminoglycosides on survival rate and renal outcomes in patients with urosepsis: a ...

class of antibiotics. Amoxicillin is also part of the beta-lactam group of antibiotics, so named for a chemical structure ...

Amoxicillin binds to penicillin-binding proteins within the bacterial cell wall and inhibits bacterial cell wall synthesis. Clavulanic acid is a beta-lactam, structurally related to penicillin ...