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Thursday, 16 May 2024, 10:52 AM
Site: OpenLearn Create
Course: Testing for mechanisms of resistance (Fleming Fund G)
Glossary: Glossary
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β-lactamases

An enzyme that can break down penicillin, conferring resistance on the strain of bacterium carrying the gene for this enzyme. It is sometimes called penicillinase.