Bacteriostatic Antibiotics

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Loree J, Lappin SL

Bacteriostatic Antibiotics

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Bacteriostatic antibiotics, a term generally used to describe antibiotics which function via inhibition of bacterial protein synthesis, have a large variety of indications in medicine according to their mechanisms of action. Due to merely inhibiting further growth of bacteria, bacteriostatic antibiotics require a functioning host immune system to fully clear overgrowth. Due to this effect, however, observational studies have shown that there is a lower incidence of toxic shock and more tolerable side effect profiles.[1][2][3][4] The following classes and specific antibiotics are generally bacteriostatic: tetracyclines, macrolides, clindamycin, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, linezolid, and chloramphenicol. However, chloramphenicol has fallen out of favor in recent years.

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Drugs: Chloramphenicol succinate