"Clavulanic Acids" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Acids, salts, and derivatives of clavulanic acid (C8H9O5N). They consist of those beta-lactam compounds that differ from penicillin in having the sulfur of the thiazolidine ring replaced by an oxygen. They have limited antibacterial action, but block bacterial beta-lactamase irreversibly, so that similar antibiotics are not broken down by the bacterial enzymes and therefore can exert their antibacterial effects.
| Descriptor ID |
D002969
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.065.589.099.374 D04.075.080.875.099.221.374
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