Ampicillin

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Ampicillin

Ampicillin, or aminobenzylpenicillin, is a broad spectrum antibiotic and a derivative of penicillin. It is used to treat infections of E. coli, P. mirabilis, enterococci, Shigella, S. typhosa and other Salmonella, nonpenicillinase-producing N. gononhoeae, H. influenzae, staphylococci, and streptococci including streptoc. It is also widely used in molecular biology labs during the over-expression of proteins in bacterial cells that are tolerant of ampicillin. This ensures that only the bacteria of interest grow in the media and produce the protein of interest.

Ampicillin is a penicillin beta-lactam antibiotic used to eliminate susceptible, usually gram-positive, organisms. Like penicillin, ampicillin inhibits the last stage of bacterial cell wall synthesis by binding to specific penicillin-binding proteins in the bacterial cell wall.

Its IUPAC chemical name is (2S,5R,6R)-6-[[(2R)-2-amino-2-phenylacetyl]amino]-3,3-dimethyl-7-oxo-4-thia-1-azabicyclo[3.2.0]heptane-2-carboxylic acid and it has chemical formula C₁₆H₁₉N₃O₄S.

Synonyms of ampicillin

1. Ampicilline
2. Ampicillinum
3. Ampicilline
4. Ampicillina
5. Ampicillin
6. Ampicillin Trihydrate
7. Ampicillin Sodium
8. Ampicillin Base
9. Ampicillin Anhydrous
10. Ampicillin Anhydrate
11. Ampicillin Acid
12. Ampicilina
13. Anhydrous Ampicillin
14. Bayer 5427
15. D-Ampicillin
16. Aminobenzylpenicillin

Brand names of ampicillin

1. AB-PC
2. Ab-Pc Sol
3. Acillin
4. Adobacillin
5. Alpen
6. Amblosin
7. Amcill
8. Amfipen
9. Amfipen V
10. Amipenix S
11. Ampen
12. Ampi
13. Ampi-Bol
14. Ampi-Co
15. Ampi-Tab
16. Ampichel
17. Ampicil
18. Ampicillin A
19. Ampicin
20. Ampifarm
21. Ampikel
22. Ampimed
23. Ampipenin
24. Ampipenin, Nt3
25. Ampiscel
26. Ampisyn
27. Ampivax
28. Ampivet
29. Amplacilina
30. Amplin
31. Amplipenyl
32. Amplisom
33. Amplital
34. Ampy-Penyl
35. Austrapen
36. BRL
37. Binotal
38. Bonapicillin
39. Britacil
40. Campicillin
41. Cimex
42. Copharcilin
43. D-Cillin
44. Delcillin
45. Deripen
46. Divercillin
47. Doktacillin
48. Duphacillin
49. Geocillin
50. Grampenil
51. Guicitrina
52. Guicitrine
53. Lifeampil
54. Morepen
55. Norobrittin
56. Novo-Ampicillin
57. Nuvapen
58. Olin Kid
59. Omnipen
60. Omnipen-N
61. Orbicilina
62. Pen A
63. Pen Ampil
64. Pen a Oral
65. Penbristol
66. Penbritin
67. Penbritin Paediatric
68. Penbritin Syrup
69. Penbritin-S
70. Penbrock
71. Penicline
72. Penimic
73. Pensyn
74. Pentrex
75. Pentrexl
76. Pentrexyl
77. Pfizerpen A
78. Pfizerpen-A
79. Polycillin
80. Polycillin-N
81. Ponecil
82. Princillin
83. Principen
84. Principen '125'
85. Principen '250'
86. Principen '500'
87. Qidamp
88. Racenacillin
89. Ro-Ampen
90. Rosampline
91. Roscillin
92. Semicillin
93. Semicillin R
94. Servicillin
95. Sk-Ampicillin
96. Spectrobid
97. Sumipanto
98. Supen
99. Synpenin
100. Texcillin
101. Tokiocillin
102. Tolomol
103. Totacillin
104. Totacillin-N
105. Totalciclina
106. Totapen
107. Trifacilina
108. Ultrabion
109. Ultrabron
110. Vampen
111. Viccillin
112. Viccillin S
113. Wypicil

External links

• Ampicillin - FDA approved drug information (drug label) from DailyMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine).
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