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Parent topics
- Medication [r]: A licensed drug taken to cure or reduce symptoms of an illness or medical condition. [e]
Subtopics
- Antibiotic resistance [r]: The development of resistance to an antibiotic in an organism originally susceptible to it [e]
- Penicillin [r]: A class of antibiotic drugs that have a common β-lactam core structure. [e]
- Cephalosporin [r]: Class of antibiotic compounds sharing a common
-lactam structure, 7-aminocephalosporanic acid. [e]
- Lactam [r]: A cyclic amide chemical compound. Important component of many antibiotics. [e]
- Quinolone [r]: Family of synthetically produced broad-spectrum antibiotics. [e]
- Tetracycline [r]: Both a class of naphthacene antibiotics, and a specific member of the class, which inhibit amino alkyl transfer RNA binding during protein synthesis [e]
- Aminoglycoside [r]: Antibiotics class that contain an amino sugar and amino- or guanido-substituted inositol rings attached to hexose. [e]
- Macrolide [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ketolide [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sulfonamide [r]: An amide of a sulfonic acid, with chemical equation R-SO2-NR2. [e]
- Oxazolidinone [r]: Add brief definition or description
