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Cephamycin
Introduction
Cephamycins are a group of beta-lactam antibiotics, very similar to cephalosporins. Together with cephalosporins, they form a sub-group of antibiotics called cephems. Cephamycins were originally produced by Streptomyces, but synthetic ones have been produced as well.
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