penicillins
- plural of penicillin.
Example Sentences
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Some bacteria have developed the ability to break down beta-lactam antibiotics like penicillins and cephalosporins, making them ineffective.
From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024
The second were synthetic penicillins, modified in the lab to resist the bugs' enzymes.
From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2013
It steadily gained resistance against entire classes of antibiotics: first the penicillins in the 1960s, then the tetracyclines in the 1980s, and Cipro and its chemical cousins, known as fluoroquinolones, in the 1990s.
From Scientific American • May 4, 2012
They are also closely related to the penicillins.
From BBC • Jul. 11, 2011
This procedure may well produce animal bacteria that transmit drug resistance to bacteria that infect humans; indeed, such new strains may be resistant to all penicillins and tetracyclines.
From Time Magazine Archive
