antibacterial spectrum

Researchers divide the quinolones into generations based on their antibacterial spectrum.

Gentamicin is an antibiotic which has a relatively broad antibacterial spectrum.

These agents have the broadest antibacterial spectrum compared to other β-lactam classes such as penicillins and cephalosporins.

It is often grouped together with second-generation cephalosporins and has a similar antibacterial spectrum, but with additional anti-anaerobe coverage.

Extended-spectrum penicillin is a group of antibiotics that has the widest antibacterial spectrum of all penicillins.

Other antibiotics with broad antibacterial spectra are cephalothin, carbenicillin, amoxicillin, cefamandol, tobramycin, and vancomycin.

Nifuratel appears to have a broad antibacterial spectrum of action and is effective against Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma spp.

The cephalosporins are diverse in their antibacterial spectrum, water solubility, acid tolerability, oral bioavailability, biological half-life and other properties.

The broad antibacterial spectrum and the high in vitro activity are reflected by high in vivo efficacy in experimental infections.

With this technology they hope to design drug candidates with increased target affinity that overcome bacterial resistance, broadened antibacterial spectrum, and increased efficacy and safety.

Antibacterial spectrum of lactoferricin B, a potent bactericidal peptide derived from the N-terminal region of bovine lactoferrin.

Although similar in structure, antibacterial spectrum, and mechanism of action to macrolides, lincomycin is also effective against other organisms including actinomycetes, mycoplasma, and some species of Plasmodium.

Its antibacterial spectrum is the same as erythromycin, but it is active against Mycobacterium avium complex MAV, M. leprae and atypical mycobacteria.

Antibiotics with a wide spectrum that are also stable will have a greater impact on the bacterial flora (a long eco-shadow) than those with a narrow antibacterial spectrum which disintegrates more rapidly (a short eco-shadow).

The antibacterial spectrum comprises Gram-positive cocci and rods, Gram-negative cocci and also Legionellae, mycoplasmas, chlamydiae, some types of spirochetes, Toxoplasma gondii and Cryptosporidium sp., Enterobacteria, pseudomonads and pathogenic moulds are resistant.