"Bacitracin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A complex of cyclic peptide antibiotics produced by the Tracy-I strain of Bacillus subtilis. The commercial preparation is a mixture of at least nine bacitracins with bacitracin A as the major constituent. It is used topically to treat open infections such as infected eczema and infected dermal ulcers. (From Goodman and Gilman, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 8th ed, p1140)
| Descriptor ID |
D001414
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D04.345.566.075 D12.644.641.075
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| Concept/Terms |
Baci-IM- Baci-IM
- Baci IM
- Zeba-Rx
- Zeba Rx
- Baci-Rx
- Baci Rx
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| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Bacitracin" by people in Profiles.
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Successful resuscitation of a patient who developed cardiac arrest from pulsed saline bacitracin lavage during thoracic laminectomy and fusion. J Clin Anesth. 2008 Jun; 20(4):294-6.
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Anchoring of surface proteins to the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus. III. Lipid II is an in vivo peptidoglycan substrate for sortase-catalyzed surface protein anchoring. J Biol Chem. 2002 May 03; 277(18):16241-8.
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Regulation of insulin, epidermal growth factor, and transforming growth factor-alpha levels by growth factor-degrading enzymes. Endocrinology. 1991 Mar; 128(3):1603-10.