cefotaxime ( ctx ) , a third-generation cephalosporin with high potency against virtually all enterobacteriaceae as well as many other clinically important facultative and anaerobic bacteria , is metabolized in vivo to desacetylcefotaxime ( des-ctx ) , which also has intrinsic antibacterial activity , albeit less than the parent compound .
C0007554
ctx
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antibacterial