Oxytetracycline hydrochloride, antibiotics. Alias: Methomycin, oxytetracycline. Oxytetracycline hydrochloride is a broad-spectrum bacteriostatic agent, many Rickettsia, Mycoplasma genus, chlamydia, spirochetes, amoeba protozoa and some malaria parasites are also sensitive to this product. Enterococcus is resistant to it.
Other such as actinomycetes, Bacillus anthracis, Listeria monocytogenes, Clostridium, Nocardia, Vibrio, Brucella, Campylobacter, Yersinia are sensitive.
Application of Oxytetracycline Hydrochloride
Over the years due to the wide application of tetracyclines, clinical common pathogens resistant to oxytetracycline serious, including Staphylococcus aureus and other Gram-positive bacteria and most Gram-negative bacilli.
There is cross-resistance between different varieties of tetracycline antibiotics. This product mechanism for the drug can specifically with the bacterial ribosome 30S subunit A position of the combination of inhibition of peptide chain growth and the impact of bacterial protein synthesis.
This product on intestinal infections, including amoebic dysentery, the effect is slightly stronger than tetracycline. And tetracycline has a close cross-resistance.
Function of Oxytetracycline Hydrochloride
Oxytetracycline hydrochloride can be used as a drug for the following diseases:
(1) Rickettsia disease, including epidemic typhus, endemic typhus, rocky mountain fever, tsutsugamushi disease and Q fever.
(2) Mycoplasma infection.
(3) Chlamydia infection, including parrot fever, sexually transmitted diseases, lymphoid edema, nonspecific urethritis, salpingitis, cervicitis and trachoma.
(4) return to heat.
(5) brucellosis.
(6) Cholera.
(7) Rabbit fever.
(8) Plague.
(9) chancre.
Treatment of brucellosis and plague when combined with aminoglycosides.