Macrolide
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Macrolides are a class of mostly natural products with a large macrocyclic lactone ring to which one or more deoxy sugars, usually cladinose and desosamine, may be attached. Macrolides belong to the p
Azithromycin capsules
Azithromycin
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Azithromycin, sold under the brand names Zithromax and Azasite, is an antibiotic medication used to treat several bacterial infections. These include middle ear infections, strep throat, pneumonia, tr
Macrolide
…substitute to penicillin in cases where patients were allergic to penicillin or had penicillin-resistant illnesses. Later macrolides developed, including azithromycin and clarithromycin, stemmed from chemically modifying erythromycin; these compounds were designed to be more easily absorbed and have fewer side-effects…
Azithromycin pills in Europe, with brand name Sumamed.
Zithromax (azithromycin) 250 mg tablets (CA)