one of several broad spectrum antibiotic substances obtained from fungi and related to penicillin (trade names Mefoxin); addition of side chains has produced semisynthetic antibiotics with greater antibacterial activity
a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections
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