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Linezolid is a member of the oxazolidinone class of medications. [10] Linezolid was discovered in the mid-1990s, and was approved for commercial use in 2000. [16] [17] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. [18] The World Health Organization classifies linezolid as critically important for human medicine. [19]
Skeletal formula of the antibiotic linezolid, highlighting the oxazolidinone pharmacophore (in blue) and desirable structural characteristics (in orange). Created using ACD/ChemSketch 10.0 and Inkscape. Date: 24 June 2009: Source: Own work based on: Brickner SJ (1996).
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Glycopeptide antibiotics are a class of drugs of microbial origin that are composed of glycosylated cyclic or polycyclic nonribosomal peptides.Significant glycopeptide antibiotics include the anti-infective antibiotics vancomycin, teicoplanin, telavancin, ramoplanin, avoparcin and decaplanin, corbomycin, complestatin and the antitumor antibiotic bleomycin.
β-Lactam antibiotics are indicated for the prevention and treatment of bacterial infections caused by susceptible organisms. At first, β-lactam antibiotics were mainly active only against gram-positive bacteria, yet the recent development of broad-spectrum β-lactam antibiotics active against various gram-negative organisms has increased their usefulness.
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Tedizolid was approved by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 20, 2014, with the indication for the treatment of acute bacterial Skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) caused by certain susceptible bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus (including methicillin-resistant strains, MRSA, and methicillin-susceptible strains), various Streptococcus species (S. pyogenes, S ...
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