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n. - The mixture of antibiotic relatively nontoxic acids produced especially by molds that constitutes the principal component of many commercial antibiotics.

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  • - Penicillin G or benzylpenicillin should be reserved for acute infections only.
  • - Procaine penicillin forte (PPF) is a combination of procaine penicillin and benzylpenicillin.
  • If the hospital is more than 2 hours away and you know how, first inject the baby with 100,000 units of benzylpenicillin.
  • The sulphur atom present is itself relatively heavy enough to operate for structure finding purposes in sodium benzylpenicillin only a little less effectively then bromine.
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