Antibiotic/Related Articles

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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 $\beta$-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]: A cyclic chemical structure central to many drugs, particularly to many antibiotics. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Antifungal [r]: Add brief definition or description