See Also: Comby's sign(medicine)
Comby(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
chloramphenicol(dictionary)
Chloramphenicol(medicine)
Chloramphenicol(health)
chloramphenicol o-acetyltransferase(medicine)
chloramphenicol amidase(medicine)
chloramphenicol acetyltransferase(medicine)
chloramphenicol resistance(medicine)

chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (medicine) and Comby's sign (medicine)


chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (medicine)


chloramphenicol acetyltransferase
<enzyme> A bacterial enzyme that inactivates the antibiotic chloramphenicol by acetylation. Widely used as a reporter gene for examining the control of eucaryotic gene expression.

Acronym: CAT


Comby's sign (medicine)


Comby's sign
<clinical sign> An early sign of measles, consisting in thin whitish patches on the gums and buccal mucous membrane, formed of desquamating epithelial cells.