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Metronidazole vs Paromomycin - What's the difference?

metronidazole | paromomycin |

In medicine|lang=en terms the difference between metronidazole and paromomycin

is that metronidazole is (medicine) an antibiotic of the nitroimidazole group, used to treat a range of bacterial, fungal and protozoan infections while paromomycin is (medicine) a broad-spectrum antibiotic produced by a form of streptomyces rimosus .

As nouns the difference between metronidazole and paromomycin

is that metronidazole is (medicine) an antibiotic of the nitroimidazole group, used to treat a range of bacterial, fungal and protozoan infections while paromomycin is (medicine) a broad-spectrum antibiotic produced by a form of streptomyces rimosus .

metronidazole

English

Noun

  • (medicine) An antibiotic of the nitroimidazole group, used to treat a range of bacterial, fungal and protozoan infections

    • See also

    *(wikipedia "metronidazole")

    paromomycin

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia paromomycin) (-)
  • (medicine) A broad-spectrum antibiotic produced by a form of Streptomyces rimosus

    • Synonyms

    * aminosidine * monomycin