Penicillin

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Penicillin refers to a class of antibiotic drugs that have a common -lactam structure. Some bacterial have developed resistance to penicillins through the acquisition of -lactamases, enzymes which degrade the <mat>\beta</math>-lactam structures of the penicillin drugs.

For more information about specific penicillin drugs, see these pages: