About The Medical Condition Potassium Clavulanate
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Potassium Clavulanate
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What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Potassium Clavulanate?
Clavulanic acid and its salts and esters. The acid is a suicide inhibitor of bacterial beta-lactamase enzymes from Streptomyces clavuligerus. Administered alone, it has only weak antibacterial activity against most organisms, but given in combination with beta-lactam antibiotics prevents antibiotic inactivation by microbial lactamase.
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