Definition of "glycopeptide" [glycopeptide]

• Any compound of a carbohydrate and a peptide (noun)

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• "It has developed several types of resistance to vancomycin, a glycopeptide, which for decades was the MRSA drug of last resort, and is beginning to exhibit resistance to drugs in newly developed families that were intended to replace vancomycin: linezolid (Zyvox), an oxazolidinone, and daptomycin (marketed as Cubicin), a lipopeptide."
• "That is partly because it is a glycopeptide, a separate class of drug from penicillin and methicillin."
• "It was a new class of drug, a glycopeptide, which meant that bacteria had no prior experience in how to defeat it."