VANCOMYCIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vancomycin mean? 

• VANCOMYCIN (noun)
  The noun VANCOMYCIN has 1 sense:

1. an antibiotic (trade name Vancocin) effective against some bacterial infections

  Familiarity information: VANCOMYCIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VANCOMYCIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An antibiotic (trade name Vancocin) effective against some bacterial infections

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Vancocin; vancomycin

Hypernyms ("vancomycin" is a kind of...):

antibiotic; antibiotic drug (a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections)

 Context examples 

First-generation glycopeptide antibiotics include vancomycin, teicoplanin, and ramoplanin; second-generation semi-synthetic glycopeptide antibiotics include oritavancin, dalbavancin, and telavancin.

(Glycopeptide Antibiotic, NCI Thesaurus)

Half the participants in each group also received a five-day course of a broad-spectrum antibiotic regimen (consisting of neomycin, vancomycin, and metronidazole) by mouth before receiving the vaccine.

(Disrupting the gut microbiome may affect some immune responses to flu vaccination, National Institutes of Health)

E. avium has been isolated from chicken feces and is commensal in the human GI tract, but can be pathogenic to humans and in some cases is vancomycin resistant.

(Enterococcus avium, NCI Thesaurus)

E. gallinarum has been isolated from the gastrointestinal tract of domestic fowl and is pathogenic in humans with some resistance to vancomycin.

(Enterococcus gallinarum, NCI Thesaurus)

E. casseliflavus has been isolated from plants, silage, soil and is commensal in the human GI tract, but has been associated with various human infections and has low level vancomycin resistance.

(Enterococcus casseliflavus, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is indole positive, but lipase, catalase, urease and nitrate negative, hydrolyzes esculin and gelatin, and is beta-lactamase positive thus resistant to penicillin G, vancomycin, ceftizoxime, cefotetan.

(Bacteroides nordii, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is oxidase negative, fermentative, susceptible to ampicillin, amoxicillin-clavulanate, ceftazidime, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, cefepime, ofloxacin, gentamicin, carbenicillin, and amikacin but resistant to cephalothin, penicillin G, and vancomycin.

(Ewingella americana, NCI Thesaurus)