What are Macrolides?
Macrolides are a class of antibiotics derived from a type of soil-borne bacteria called Saccharopolyspora erythraea (mainly Streptomyces erythraeus), Streptomyces erythreus.
Macrolides inhibit protein synthesis in bacteria by reversibly binding to the P site of the 50S unit of the ribosome, and macrolides affect Gram-positive cocci and intracellular pathogens such as Chlamydia, Legionella and Mycoplasma. Erythromycin is the first macrolide antibiotic drug.
Macrolide antibiotics are drugs used to treat bacterial infections including skin infections, lower respiratory infections, upper respiratory infections, sinus infections, pneumonia, eye infections, ear infections, and acne. Macrolide antibiotics drugs work by killing the bacteria that cause the infection.
List of macrolide antibiotics drugs such as:
Erythromycin,
Clarithromycin,
Azithromycin,
Fidaxomicin,
Roxithromycin,