Flashcards: Macrolide antibiotics

Erythromycin is an antibiotic useful for the treatment of a number of bacterial infections.

Azithromycin is an antibiotic useful for the treatment of a number of bacterial infections.

Dirithromycin is a macrolide glycopeptide antibiotic.

Telithromycin is the first ketolide antibiotic to enter clinical use and is sold under the brand name of Ketek.

Oleandomycin is a macrolide antibiotic.

Clarithromycin, sold under the brand name Biaxin, is an antibiotic used to treat various bacterial infections.

Mepartricin is an macrolide polyene compound that is useful for urethra, prostate and bladder function.

Midecamycin is a macrolide antibiotic.

Filipin is a mixture of chemical compounds first isolated by chemists at the Upjohn company in 1955 from the mycelium and culture filtrates of a previously unknown actinomycete, Streptomyces filipinensis.

Spiramycin is a macrolide antibiotic and antiparasitic It is used to treat toxoplasmosis and various other infections of soft tissues.

Josamycin is a macrolide antibiotic.

Roxithromycin is a semi-synthetic macrolide antibiotic.

Kitasamycin (INN) is a macrolide antibiotic.

Tilmicosin is a macrolide antibiotic.

Tulathromycin is a macrolide antibiotic used to treat bovine respiratory disease (BRD) in cattle and swine respiratory disease in pigs.

Virginiamycin S1 is a macrolide antibiotic in the group of antibiotics known as streptogramin B.

Anthracimycin is a polyketide antibiotic discovered in 2013.

Miocamycin is a macrolide antibiotic.

Pentamycin, also called fungichromin, is a macrolide antibiotic.

Solithromycin (formerly known as CEM-101 and OP-1068) is a ketolide antibiotic undergoing clinical development for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and other infections.

Troleandomycin is a macrolide antibiotic.

Carbomycin, also known as magnamycin, is a colorless, optically active crystalline macrolide antibiotic with the molecular formula C42H67NO16.

Brefeldin A is a lactone antibiotic produced by fungal organisms such as Eupenicillium brefeldianum.

Boromycin is a bacteriocidal polyether-macrolide antibiotic.

Fidaxomicin (trade names Dificid, Dificlir, and previously OPT-80 and PAR-101) is the first in a new class of narrow spectrum macrocyclic antibiotic drugs.

Flopristin is a semi-synthetic antibiotic of the streptogramin A class.

Flurithromycin is a macrolide antibiotic.

Oligomycins are macrolides created by Streptomyces that can be poisonous to other organisms.

Tylosin is an antibiotic as well as a bacteriostat feed additive used in veterinary medicine.

Pristinamycin IIB is an antibiotic of the streptogramin A class.

Pristinamycin IIA is a macrolide antibiotic.

Vermiculine is an antibiotic isolate of Penicillium vermiculatum.

Vicenistatin is a macrolactam antibiotic synthesized by Streptomyces halstedii HC34.

Pikromycin was studied by Brokmann and Hekel in 1951 and was the first antibiotic macrolide to be isolated.

Rokitamycin is a macrolide antibiotic.

Macrocin is a macrolide antibiotic.

Nargenicin is a 28 carbon macrolide with a tricyclic lactone containing a unique ether bridge.

Rosaramicin (rosamicin) is an antibacterial substance chemically a lipid-soluble basic macrolide similar to erythromycin but with a better activity against Gram-negative bacteria.