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Cephalosporin vs Cefotaxime - What's the difference?

cephalosporin | cefotaxime | Hypernyms |

Cefotaxime is a hypernym of cephalosporin.



As nouns the difference between cephalosporin and cefotaxime

is that cephalosporin is any of a class of natural and synthetic antibiotics developed from genus: Cephalosporium fungi, having a cepham structure while cefotaxime is a wide-spectrum antibiotic with efficacy against most bacteria.

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

    cefotaxime

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A wide-spectrum antibiotic with efficacy against most bacteria.

    • Hypernyms

    *cephalosporin *cephem *thiazole

    See also

    *(wikipedia "cefotaxime")