Definition of "rifampicin" [rifampicin]

• Rifampin (noun)

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• "Patients infected with strains of TB that are resistant to (at least) the two most powerful first-line antibiotics used to treat TB, namely rifampicin and isoniazid, are said to have multidrug-resistant TB, or MDR-TB"
• "The other half will receive the drug rifampin (also known as rifampicin) for four months."
• "This antibiotic also acts against the cell membrane and the cell wall, and resistance emergence to this compound may be lower than other antibiotics which target a single enzyme, such as rifampicin or mupirocin"