D06A Antibiotics for topical use

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Tetracycline Tetracycline, sold under various brand names, is an oral antibiotic in the tetracyclines family of medications, used to treat a number of infections, including acne, cholera, brucellosis, plague, malaria, and syphilis. Common side effects in ...
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Chlortetracycline Chlortetracycline (trade name Aureomycin, Lederle Laboratories) is a tetracycline antibiotic, the first tetracycline to be identified. It was discovered in 1945 at Lederle Laboratories under the supervision of scientist Yellapragada Subbarow and ...

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Oxytetracycline Oxytetracycline is a broad-spectrum tetracycline antibiotic, the second of the group to be discovered. Oxytetracycline works by interfering with the ability of bacteria to produce essential proteins. Without these proteins, the bacteria cannot g ...

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Tetracycline Tetracycline, sold under various brand names, is an oral antibiotic in the tetracyclines family of medications, used to treat a number of infections, including acne, cholera, brucellosis, plague, malaria, and syphilis. Common side effects in ...

:QD06AA52 Chlortetracycline, combinations :QD06AA53 Oxytetracycline, combinations :QD06AA54 Tetracycline, combinations

D06AX Other antibiotics for topical use

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Neomycin Neomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic that displays bactericidal activity against gram-negative aerobic bacilli and some anaerobic bacilli where resistance has not yet arisen. It is generally not effective against gram-positive bacilli and ...

:D06AX05 Bacitracin :D06AX07 Gentamicin :D06AX08

Tyrothricin Tyrothricin is an antibiotic mixture which was isolated from '' Bacillus brevis'' by Rene Dubos in the late 1930s. It was later shown by Dubos and Rollin Hotchkiss to be a mixture of two different antibiotics: gramicidin and tyrocidine. Both ...

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Mupirocin Mupirocin, sold under the brand name Bactroban among others, is a topical antibiotic useful against superficial skin infections such as impetigo or folliculitis. It may also be used to get rid of methicillin-resistant ''S. aureus'' (MRSA) wh ...

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Rifaximin Rifaximin, is a non-absorbable, broad spectrum antibiotic mainly used to treat travelers' diarrhea. It is based on the rifamycin antibiotics family. Since its approval in Italy in 1987, it has been licensed in over more than 30 countries for th ...

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Amikacin Amikacin is an antibiotic medication used for a number of bacterial infections. This includes joint infections, intra-abdominal infections, meningitis, pneumonia, sepsis, and urinary tract infections. It is also used for the treatment of mu ...

:D06AX13 Retapamulin :D06AX14 Ozenoxacin :D06AX15 Rifamycin :QD06AX99 Other antibiotics for topical use, combinations

D06B Chemotherapeutics for topical use

D06BA Sulfonamides

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Silver sulfadiazine Silver sulfadiazine, sold under the brand Silvadene among others, is a topical antibiotic used in partial thickness and full thickness burns to prevent infection. Tentative evidence has found other antibiotics to be more effective, and therefore ...

:D06BA02 Sulfathiazole :D06BA03 Mafenide :D06BA04 Sulfamethizole :D06BA05 Sulfanilamide :D06BA06 Sulfamerazine :QD06BA30 Combinations of chemotherapeutics for topical use :D06BA51 Silver sulfadiazine, combinations :QD06BA53 Mafenide, combinations :QD06BA90 Formosulfathiazole :QD06BA99 Sulfonamides, combinations

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Antivirals Antiviral drugs are a class of medication used for treating viral infections. Most antivirals target specific viruses, while a broad-spectrum antiviral is effective against a wide range of viruses. Unlike most antibiotics, antiviral drugs do no ...

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Idoxuridine Idoxuridine is an anti-herpesvirus antiviral drug. It is a nucleoside analogue, a modified form of deoxyuridine, similar enough to be incorporated into viral DNA replication, but the iodine atom added to the uracil component blocks base pairin ...

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Aciclovir Aciclovir (ACV), also known as acyclovir, is an antiviral medication. It is primarily used for the treatment of herpes simplex virus infections, chickenpox, and shingles. Other uses include prevention of cytomegalovirus infections following tra ...

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Podophyllotoxin Podophyllotoxin (PPT) is the active ingredient in Podofilox, which is a medical cream that is used to treat genital warts and molluscum contagiosum. It is not recommended in HPV infections without external warts. It can be applied either by a he ...

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Inosine Inosine is a nucleoside that is formed when hypoxanthine is attached to a ribose ring (also known as a ribofuranose) via a β-N9- glycosidic bond. It was discovered in 1965 in analysis of RNA transferase. Inosine is commonly found in tRNAs and is ...

:D06BB06 Penciclovir :D06BB07

Lysozyme Lysozyme (EC 3.2.1.17, muramidase, ''N''-acetylmuramide glycanhydrolase; systematic name peptidoglycan ''N''-acetylmuramoylhydrolase) is an antimicrobial enzyme produced by animals that forms part of the innate immune system. It is a glycoside ...

:D06BB08 Ibacitabine :D06BB09

Edoxudine Edoxudine (or edoxudin) is an antiviral drug. It is an analog of thymidine, a nucleoside Nucleosides are glycosylamines that can be thought of as nucleotides without a phosphate group. A nucleoside consists simply of a nucleobase (also terme ...

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Imiquimod Imiquimod, sold under the brand name Aldara among others, is a medication that acts as an immune response modifier that is used to treat genital warts, superficial basal cell carcinoma, and actinic keratosis. Scientists at 3M's pharmaceuticals ...

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Docosanol 1-Docosanol, also known as behenyl alcohol, is a saturated fatty alcohol containing 22 carbon atoms, used traditionally as an emollient, emulsifier, and thickener in cosmetics. In July 2000, docosanol was approved for medical use in the Unite ...

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Sinecatechins Sinecatechins (United States Adopted Name, USAN, trade names Veregen and Polyphenon E) is a specific green tea extract, water extract of green tea leaves from ''Camellia sinensis'' that is the active ingredient in an ointment approved by the FDA in ...

:D06BB53 Aciclovir, combinations

D06BX Other chemotherapeutics

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Metronidazole Metronidazole, sold under the brand name Flagyl among others, is an antibiotic and antiprotozoal medication. It is used either alone or with other antibiotics to treat pelvic inflammatory disease, endocarditis, and bacterial vaginosis. It i ...

:D06BX02 Ingenol mebutate :D06BX03 Tirbanibulin

D06C Antibiotics and chemotherapeutics, combinations

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