Talk:Clavulanic acid

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As far as I know, clavulanic acid is not a competitive inhibitor of beta-lactamases but rather a suicide inhibitor. That is important because this second class of inhibitors produce an irreversible action.

When did Cl. acid come into use? It would be extremely useful for all the wiki pages on antibiotics to contain info on dates of discovery, patent, first use (experimental), first use (widespread), by country, etc., etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.195.160.192 (talk) 06:15, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clavulanate is active by itself.. "Although clavulanate has minimal antibacterial activity in vitro, accumulating evidence suggests that it may have an effect on pathogenic bacteria regardless of β-lactamase production" Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/1/18.full.pdf 90.43.35.152 (talk) 15:26, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cross-reference or merge?

Should there be a cross-reference to, or perhaps merge into, Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid? PraeceptorIP (talk) 14:50, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]