Symptomatic cat-scratch disease (Bartonella henselae) bacillary angiomatosis and peliosis hepatis in patients with AIDS(involving B. henselae or B.

. Quintana) Azithromycin Cerebral toxoplasmosis Babesiosis Chlamydia trachomatis Urethritis and cervicitis Clarithromycin And azithromycin Erythromycin Mycobacterium avium complex Uncomplicated skin infectionsAcne Bowel preparation before GI tract surgery Part of a multidrug regimen Used with other drugs Used with other drugs

Topical use taken orally and used with an oral aminoglycoside

Indications: Macrolides are active against Aerobic and anaerobic gram-positive cocci, exept for most enterococci, many Staphylococcus aureus strains (especially methicillin-resistant strains), and some Streptococcus pneumonia and S. pyogenes strains Mycoplasma pneumoniae Chlamydia trachomatis Chlamydia pneumonia Legionella sp Corynebacterium diphtheriae Campylobacter sp Treponema pallidum Propionibacterium acnes Borrelia burgdorferi Contraindications: Macrolides are contraindicated in patients who have had an allergic reaction to them Fluoroquinolone

Brand Neggram Noroxin Maxaquin Floxin Cipro

Generic Nalidixic acid Norfloxacin Lomefloxacin Ofloxacin Ciprofloxacin

Fluoroquinolone Classification System Manufacturer Generation Microbiology sanofisynthelabo 1st Merck Searle Ortho-McNeil Bayer 2nd 2nd 2nd 2nd

Levaquin Zagam Tequin Avelox Trovan

Levofloxacin Sparfloxacin Glatifloxacin Moxifloxacin trovafloxacin

Ortho-McNeil Rhonepoulenc Rorer Bristol-Myers Squibb Bayer pfizer

3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 4th

General Indications Gram negative but Uncomplicated not pseudomonas UTIs As above but UTIs including ,pyelonephritis, Pseudomonas.Some STD, gram+ including s. prostatitis,skin aureus.Not strep and soft tissue pneumonia. infections Atypical including Chlamydia, mycoplasma and legionella. Same as above + Acute expand gramexarbations of Including pen chronic sensitive and bronchitis and resistant s. community acquired pneumoniae Same as above plus As above broad anaerobic except UTIs coverage and pyelonephritis. Plus intraabdominal infections, PID and nosocomial pnuemonia

Cephalosporin Indications: Cephalosporins are bacterial for most of the following: Gram-positive bacteria Gram-negative bacteria Contraindication -animals with cephalosporin or penicillin sensitivity Tetracycline CONTRAINDICATION: Animals with impaired renal function(except for Doxycycline)

Last trimester of pregnancy Oral use in ruminants Patients with dysphagia Patients with vomiting Intravenous injection in dogs(some forms of oxytetracycline only) Subcutaneous injection(in horses only)

Penicillin Amoxicillin Indication: For the treatment of infections of the ear, nose, and throat, the genitourinary tract, the skin and skin structure , and the lower respiratory tract due to susceptible(only b-lactamase-negative) strains of streptococcus spp. (a-and b-hemolytic strains only), S. pneumonia, Staphlococcus spp., H. Inlfuenzae, E. coli. ,P. mirabilis , or E. faecalis. Also for the treatment of acute, uncomplicated gonorrhea(ano-genital and infections)due to N. gonorrhea(males and females). Ampicillin Indication: For treatment of infection (respiratory , GI, UTI and meningitis) due to E. coli, P. mirabilis, enterococci, Shigella, S. typhosa and other Salmonella, nonpenicillase-producing N. gonorrhea, H. influenza, Staphylococci Contraindications: A history of a previous hypersensitivity reaction to any of the penicillins is a contraindication. Ampicillin is also contraindicated in infections caused by penicillinase-producing organisms.