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erythromycin
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atypical (ay-tip-ik-ăl) adj. not conforming to type.
a. antipsychotic see
antipsychotic.
a. pneumonia pneumonia, caused by such organisms as Mycoplasma pneumoniae, that does not respond to penicillin but does respond to such antibiotics as tetracycline and erythromycin.
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Erythromycin: drug interactions.
Magazine article from: Journal of Dental Hygiene; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...will focus on the interaction between erythromycin and other commonly used medications. Erythromycin is a macrolide antibiotic derived from...a number of reports have implicated erythromycin as a cause of clinically severe drug...
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Erythromycin and Common Cold in COPD(*).(chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
Magazine article from: Chest; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...objectives: To investigate whether erythromycin therapy lowers the frequency of the...Patients were randomly assigned to erythromycin therapy or to no active treatment in...investigated. Fifty-five patients received erythromycin at study entry (erythromycin group...
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Erythromycin resistance among invasive pneumococci in Scotland, 1994-2003
Magazine article from: British Journal of Biomedical Science; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Resistance of pneumococci to erythromycin is increasing worldwide and...affects the clinical impact of erythromycin useage.10 Thus, the aim of...to determine the incidence of erythromycin resistance among invasive pneumococci...
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Erythromycin and Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis.(Report)
Magazine article from: Infectious Disease Alert; 11/1/2001; 700+ words
; Erythromycin and Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric...found that infants prescribed systemic erythromycin during the first 2 weeks of life had...The highest risk was with systemic erythromycin use during the first 2 weeks of life...
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Erythromycin Can Prolong Pregnancy, Improve Neonatal Outcomes in pPROM.
Magazine article from: OB GYN News; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Erythromycin has beneficial effects on the neonate...were randomized to receive 250 mg of erythromycin, 325 mg of co-amoxiclav (a combination...with pPROM in Oracle I who received erythromycin only or placebo, the 1,190 whose...
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Erythromycin does not directly affect neutrophil functions.
Magazine article from: Chest; 2/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; To determine whether erythromycin could affect neutrophil functions, we measured...superoxide generation of neutrophils in the presence of erythromycin at various concentrations. Erythromycin had no effect on either of them. We further confirmed...
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The Macrolides: Erythromycin, clarithromycin, and azitromycin
Magazine article from: Mayo Clinic Proceedings; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; In addition to erythromycin, macrolides now available in the United...chemically stable and better tolerated than erythromycin, and they have a broader antimicrobial spectrum than erythromycin against Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC...
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The Effects of Erythromycin on the Electrocardiogram.
Magazine article from: Chest; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...effects have been attributed to erythromycin. During the course of treating a pneumonia patient with IV erythromycin, the conversion of atrial fibrillation...the ECG following the use of IV erythromycin in a typical clinical setting...
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Ototoxic effect of erythromycin on cochlear potentials in the guinea pig
Magazine article from: The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...to the administration of intravenous erythromycin was investigated in the albino guinea...cochlear turn transiently decreased when erythromycin was administered intravenously at dosages...ensued within 20 minutes after each erythromycin dose. The perilymphatic perfusion...
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Erythromycin is used as penicillin substitute
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/16/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...prescribed for the allergy-prone is erythromycin. The discovery of this antibiotic...colleagues, who described finding erythromycin in a soil sample previously collected...the Philippine Archipelago. Erythromycin is considered the safest of all...
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Erythromycins
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery: A Guide for Patients and Caregivers
...In some cases, erythromycin has been used to treat...described here include erythromycins (Erythrocin, Ery...prescribed the medicine. Erythromycins may cause mild diarrhea...diarrhea while taking erythromycin or related drugs should...conditions Taking erythromycins may cause problems...
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erythromycin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
erythromycin , any of several related antibiotic...genus Streptomyces (see antibiotic ). Erythromycin is most effective against gram-positive...negative bacteria and some fungi. Erythromycin inhibits protein synthesis in susceptible...
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Antibiotics
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery: A Guide for Patients and Caregivers
...macrocyclic lactone chemical structure. Erythromycin, the prototype of this class, has...who are allergic to penicillin, erythromycin is a valuable alternative. But, unlike penicillin, erythromycin can be very irritating both to the...
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Inclusion Conjunctivitis
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...tetracycline ointment to the conjunctiva and erythromycin orally or through intravenous therapy...oral tetracycline, amoxacillin, or erythromycin should be taken for three weeks, or...infection may be prevented by instilling erythromycin ointment in the conjunctival cul...
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Ercros S.A.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...which represents 7 percent of company sales, produces erythromycins, phosphomycin, and statins, and other basic and intermediary...global market, and is also the second-largest producer of erythromycin base, salts and derivatives, with a 10 percent share of...
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