Definition of "piperacillin" []

• A particular ureidopenicillin antibiotic (noun)

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• "The researchers noted that both Wyeth's Zosyn-generically known as piperacillin-tazobactam-rose 84 percent from 2002 to 2006 at the hospitals studied."
• "In nine years at Lederle Laboratories after a first career as a physician, Tally had already supervised three: cefixime, tigecycline, and the combination piperacillin/tazobactam, at the time the bestselling injectable antibiotic in the world.26 It was widely known in the pharma world that he had left Lederle the year before to join Cubist Pharmaceuticals, and it was expected that he was looking for a fourth good drug."
• "The best adequacy for EA was obtained by combinations of imipenem/cilastatin or piperacillin/tazobactam, amikacin and a glycopeptide, with values reaching 99% and 94%, respectively."