How to Use carbapenem in a Sentence

carbapenem

noun
  • That outbreak was caused by a strain of Klebsiella resistant to a major class of antibiotics called carbapenems.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 16 May 2017
  • Some bacteria have recently developed a resistance even to carbapenems, and there is little else doctors can do once someone is exposed to them.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Preventing that from happening requires being very careful about using colistin, as well as the carbapenems in the case of NDM.
    — National Geographic, 30 Aug. 2016
  • Last year, public health labs around the country were asked to watch for and quickly respond to cases of advanced antibiotic resistance, especially to some last-resort antibiotics called carbapenems.
    — Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Between 12 percent and 71 percent — depending on the species tested — were also resistant to carbapenems, a class of antibiotics once considered the last line of defense.
    — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Colistin is an old antibiotic that’s considered the last line of defense against certain infections, including those that are resistant to carbapenems, another last-resort class of antibiotics.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The bug involved was carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae.
    — NBC News, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The government agencies say these products were tainted during manufacturing with a rare strain of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa that is resistant to the common, powerful antibiotics known as carbapenems.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Among patients in hospitals and health care settings, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae — or CRE infections — were drug resistant.
    — Susan Abram, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2017
  • The rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs such as CRE (carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae), which can be fatal in up to half of patients, has made addressing these problems more urgent.
    — Chad Terhune, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The report estimates that if implemented correctly, the strategy could prevent 1,600 cases of superbug carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in one state over a three-year period.
    — Ashley Welch, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2018

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