Nichols W W
Public Health Laboratory, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK.
Microbiol Sci. 1987 May;4(5):147-8.
Beta-lactamases have been known for as long as penicillin has been used for chemotherapy. Their importance to man is that they are overwhelmingly responsible for bacterial resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics, i.e. those similar to penicillin and the cephalosporins.
自青霉素被用于化疗以来,人们就已经知道了β-内酰胺酶。它们对人类的重要性在于,细菌对β-内酰胺抗生素(即那些与青霉素和头孢菌素类似的抗生素)产生耐药性,绝大多数原因都在于β-内酰胺酶。