different between cephalosporin vs ceftiofur

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From New Latin Cephalosporium (now Acremonium), a genus of fungi.

cephalosporin (plural cephalosporins)

Any of a class of natural and synthetic antibiotics developed from Acremonium fungi, having a cepham structure.
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 63)
  Another important group of antibiotics, the cephalosporins, a class that includes more than twenty-five different drugs, are chemically distinct from the penicillins but act in the same way as cell wall inhibitors, as do vancomycin and bacitracin.

From cef- (“cefalosporanic acid derivative”) +? thio- +? fur(an).

ceftiofur (uncountable)

(pharmacology) A third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic used in veterinary medicine.

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