In article <Pine.PMDF.3.95.981201164005.568633790D-100000 at TIGER.UOFS.EDU>,
"Patrick J. Maher" <maherp1 at TIGER.UOFS.EDU> wrote:
> As previously noted beta-lactamases destroy penicillin which is a
> beta-lactam (hence beta-lactamase). A beta-lactamase inhibitor would then
> be something that could be taken with penicillin when treating a
> penicillin resistant infection.
And indeed, that's what clavulanic (sp?) acid is ('Augmentin')- and it
saved a pharmaceutical co. from bankruptcy, IIRC.
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