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

Preferred term

beta-Lactams  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • beta Lactam
  • beta-Lactam

Scope note

  • Four-membered cyclic AMIDES, best known for the PENICILLINS based on a bicyclo-thiazolidine, as well as the CEPHALOSPORINS based on a bicyclo-thiazine, and including monocyclic MONOBACTAMS. The BETA-LACTAMASES hydrolyze the beta lactam ring, accounting for BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE of infective bacteria.

History note

  • 2005; use LACTAMS 1996-2004

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D047090

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