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Macrolide vs Azalide - What's the difference?

macrolide | azalide |

As nouns the difference between macrolide and azalide

is that macrolide is a macrocyclic lactone with a ring of at least twelve atoms while azalide is any of a class of macrolide antibiotics which contain a nitrogen in the macrolide ring.

macrolide

Noun

(en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) a macrocyclic lactone with a ring of at least twelve atoms
  • (medicine) Any of a group of antibiotics having this structure
  • Hyponyms

    * azithromycin * clarithromycin * erythromycin * tacrolimus

    Anagrams

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    azalide

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia azalide)
  • Any of a class of macrolide antibiotics which contain a nitrogen in the macrolide ring.