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Macrolide vs Ketolide - What's the difference?

macrolide | ketolide |

As nouns the difference between macrolide and ketolide

is that macrolide is (organic chemistry) a macrocyclic lactone with a ring of at least twelve atoms while ketolide is any of a class of broad-spectrum macrolide antibiotics derived from erythromycin.

macrolide

English

(wikipedia 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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    ketolide

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia ketolide)
  • Any of a class of broad-spectrum macrolide antibiotics derived from erythromycin.