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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).
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.
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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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It differs from linezolid by replacement of the morpholine oxygen with a sulfur atom. Like linezolid, sutezolid is a bacterial protein synthesis inhibitor . In preclinical studies, sutezolid demonstrated superior antituberculosis activity compared to linezolid.
The oxazolidones and isoxazolidones are a set of six isomeric five-membered heterocyclic compounds consisting of a carbonyl group, an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom with a hydrogen atom attached, and two methylene groups.