Macrolides, a family of natural antibiotics
- Erythromycin
- Clarithromycin
- Azithromycin
- others
Macrolides are natural products of secondary metabolism of several species of actynomyces;
they represent a group of compounds with a lactonic ring of variable dimensions (12-22 atoms of C)
that can bind, by means of [sugar]
- glycosidic bonds,
- sacharridic
- amino-sacharridic structures.
Marcrolides are part of the larger group
- Macrolides, lincosamides, Streptomycins (MLS)
- Most of the MLS antibiotics are bacteriostatic.
Stopping germs
- static, stops new growth, inhibits
- cidal, destroys existing life, kills