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Inorganic Chemicals > Sulfur Compounds > beta-Lactams > Clavulanic Acids
Organic Chemicals > Sulfur Compounds > beta-Lactams > Clavulanic Acids
Heterocyclic Compounds > Heterocyclic Compounds, Fused-Ring > Heterocyclic Compounds, 2-Ring > beta-Lactams > Clavulanic Acids
Heterocyclic Compounds > Heterocyclic Compounds, 1-Ring > Lactams > beta-Lactams > Clavulanic Acids
Organic Chemicals > Amides > Lactams > beta-Lactams > Clavulanic Acids

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Clavulanic Acids  

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Note

  • /biosyn permitted if by living matter

Scope note

  • 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.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002969

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