Clinical pharmacology of gentamicin in neonates: regimen, toxicology and pharmacokinetics
Gentamicin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic. It kills bacteria by inhibiting protein synthesis and to some extent by lysing the cell envelope. Gentamicin is frequently the first choice drug because of its reliability, but also because of the long experience with its use. In combination with β-lactam...
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2358-04292015000500001&lng=en&tlng=en |