"Methicillin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
One of the PENICILLINS which is resistant to PENICILLINASE but susceptible to a penicillin-binding protein. It is inactivated by gastric acid so administered by injection.
| Descriptor ID |
D008712
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.065.589.099.750.500 D02.886.108.750.500 D03.633.100.300.750.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Methicillin- Methicillin
- Meticillin
- Penicillin, Dimethoxyphenyl
- Dimethoxyphenyl Penicillin
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Methicillin" by people in Profiles.
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Immergluck LC, Geng R, Li C, Edelson M, Lin X, Waller LA, Rust G, Xu J, Leong T, Baltrus P. Space-time trends of community-onset Staphylococcus aureus infections in children: a group-based trajectory modeling approach. Ann Epidemiol. 2023 06; 82:45-53.e1.
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Shane AL, Hansen NI, Stoll BJ, Bell EF, S?nchez PJ, Shankaran S, Laptook AR, Das A, Walsh MC, Hale EC, Newman NS, Schrag SJ, Higgins RD. Methicillin-resistant and susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and meningitis in preterm infants. Pediatrics. 2012 Apr; 129(4):e914-22.
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Price LB, Stegger M, Hasman H, Aziz M, Larsen J, Andersen PS, Pearson T, Waters AE, Foster JT, Schupp J, Gillece J, Driebe E, Liu CM, Springer B, Zdovc I, Battisti A, Franco A, Zmudzki J, Schwarz S, Butaye P, Jouy E, Pomba C, Porrero MC, Ruimy R, Smith TC, Robinson DA, Weese JS, Arriola CS, Yu F, Laurent F, Keim P, Skov R, Aarestrup FM. Staphylococcus aureus CC398: host adaptation and emergence of methicillin resistance in livestock. mBio. 2012; 3(1).