Bacterial pneumonia tetracyclines

See section on treatment of bacterial pneumonia. Macrolide/azalide erythromycin, clarithromycin, azithromycin. cTetracydine tetracycline hydrochloride, doxycydine. Cephalosporin cefuroxime, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime. eCarbapenem imipenem-cilastatin, meropenem. Fluoroquinolone ciprofloxacin, gatifloxacin, or levofloxacin. 

See section on treatment of bacterial pneumonia. Macrolide/azalide erythromycin, clarithromycin-azithromycin. Tetracycline tetracycline HCI, doxycycline. 

Fusidic acid resembles the tetracyclines in being almost equally inhibitory to both bacterial and mammalian ribosomes while normally leaving the latter unharmed through inability to penetrate the manunalian cytoplasmic membrane (Franklin and Snow, 1975). However, there is no chemical resemblance, for fusidic acid is a steroid. Although liable to produce mild diarrhoea, fusidic acid is well tolerated orally, even by children. It is usually reserved for pneumonia, or other coccal infection, resistant to the commoner antibiotics. 

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