"Clavulanic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Clavulanic acid and its salts and esters. The acid is a suicide inhibitor of bacterial beta-lactamase enzymes from Streptomyces clavuligerus. Administered alone, it has only weak antibacterial activity against most organisms, but given in combination with beta-lactam antibiotics prevents antibiotic inactivation by microbial lactamase.
| Descriptor ID |
D019818
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.065.589.099.374.160 D04.075.080.875.099.221.374.160
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| Concept/Terms |
Clavulanate Potassium- Clavulanate Potassium
- Potassium, Clavulanate
- Potassium Clavulanate
- Clavulanate, Potassium
- Clavulanic Acid, Monopotassium Salt
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