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Cephalosporin vs Cefixime - What's the difference?

cephalosporin | cefixime |

As nouns the difference between cephalosporin and cefixime

is that cephalosporin is any of a class of natural and synthetic antibiotics developed from genus: Cephalosporium fungi, having a cepham structure while cefixime is an oral cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat gonorrhea, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, and otitis media.

cephalosporin

English

(wikipedia cephalosporin)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of a class of natural and synthetic antibiotics developed from fungi, having a cepham structure.
  • * 2001': 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. — Leslie Iversen, ''Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 63)

    • See also

    * cephamycin

    cefixime

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • An oral cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat gonorrhea, tonsillitis, pharyngitis and otitis media.

    • External links

    * ("cefixime" on Wikipedia)