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erythromycin

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erythromycin

An antibiotic with the chemical formula C37H67NO13, isolated from a red-pigmented soil bacterium, Streptomyces erythreus. It is used in the treatment of a wide range of bacterial infections and is a useful alternative for those patients who are allergic to penicillin.



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25 [micro]g/ml) and resistance to erythromycin and clindamycin.
The prevalence of colonization with drug-resistant pneumococci among ... by Ryan, Matthew W. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
The isolate from the second patient was resistant to erythromycin and susceptible to clindamycin, exhibited the M phenotype on the double-disk diffusion assay (D test), and harbored the msrA gene, encoding an efflux pump (8).
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, ... by Arias, Cesar A. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
These included drugs that have been used for decades, such as penicillin and erythromycin, as well as drugs that were only recently invented and marketed, such as telithromycin and tigecycline.
Soil microbes are reservoir for antibiotic resistance by Science News
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