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cloxacillin

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cloxacillin /clox·a·cil·lin/ (klok″sah-sil´in) a semisynthetic penicillin; used as the sodium salt to treat staphylococcal infections due to penicillinase-positive organisms.
cloxacillin
a semisynthetic penicillin, resistant to β-lactamase and active against gram-positive bacteria.

cloxacillin
Infectious disease A beta-lactam penicillin that is not hydrolyzed by staphylococcal penicillinases, ie most isolates of S aureus and some coagulase-negative staphylococci are susceptible to cloxacillin; it is also useful for streptococci


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Disk diffusion susceptibility testing with antimicrobial drug-containing disks (Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur, Marnes-la-Coquette, France) (7) was performed with and without cloxacillin (250 mg/L), which is a [beta]-lactam molecule that inhibits in vitro cephalosporinase activity (5).
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