Meaning of cephalosporin | Babel Free

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Any of a class of natural and synthetic antibiotics developed from Acremonium fungi, having a cepham structure.

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“Another important group of antibiotics, the cephalosporins, a class that includes more than twenty-five different drugs, are chemically distinct from the penicillins but act in the same way as cell wall inhibitors, as do vancomycin and bacitracin.”

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