Oleandomycin chemical structure

Therapeutic Function Antibiotic Chemical Name Oleandomycin see Structural Formula Common Name Troleandomycin Structural Formula ... 

Oleandomycin, a 14-membered ring macrolide antibiotic, was isolated in 1956 from fermentation broths of Streptomyces antibioticus [360]. Some years later, oleandomycin was assigned the structure 340 on the basis of its chemical degradation [361]. Oleandomycin is effective, but less potently, against the same spectrum of bacteria as erythromycin, namely Gram-positive bacteria such as staphylococci, streptococci, and pneumococci. The antimicrobial activity of oleandomycin, when combined with tetracycline, is potentiated. In fact, in such a combination it is sold as an antibacterial agent for upper and lower respiratory tract infection. 

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