How to Use carbapenem in a Sentence

carbapenem

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The same E. coli strain also possessed a second gene that confers resistance to carbapenems, the second most crucial category of last-resort antibiotics.
  — 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
• Of those isolates, about 25 percent produced carbapenem-thwarting enzymes called carbapenemases.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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 bug involved was carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae.
  — NBC News, 6 Feb. 2018
• The Shigella samples retained susceptibility to four antibiotics: carbapenems, chloramphenicol, fosfomycin and temocillin.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024