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  1. Any of a class of broad-spectrum antibiotics
  2. derived from a fungus (genus Cephalosporium).
  3. It is similar to penicillin and is used on
  4. penicillin-resistant infections. The first
  5. cephalosporin was extracted from
  6. sewage-contaminated water, and other
  7. naturally occurring ones have been isolated
  8. from moulds taken from soil samples.
  9. Synthetic cephalosporins can be designed to
  10. be effective against a particular pathogen.
  11.