carbapenemase

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Etymology

carbapenem +‎ -ase

Noun

carbapenemase (countable and uncountable, plural carbapenemases)

  1. (biochemistry) Any lactamase that can hydrolyze carbapenem antibiotics and thus provide resistance to them