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Erythromycin
Essential medicine status
General description

INN
Erythromycin
Medicine type
Chemical agent
Antibiotic groups
WATCH
EML status history
Therapeutic equivalent for
Wikipedia
Erythromycin
DrugBank
Erythromycin
Recommendations
Section
Ophthalmological preparations > Anti-infective agents
  • Local > Ophthalmological > Ointment: 0.5%
Indications
First choice
Chlamydial conjunctivitis Gonococcal infection of eye
Section
Watch group antibiotics
  • Parenteral > General injections > IV: 500 mg in vial powder for injection (as lactobionate)
  • Oral > Liquid: 125 mg per 5 mL (as stearate or ethylsuccinate)
  • Oral > Solid: 250 mg (as stearate or ethylsuccinate)
Indications
Bacterial infection of unspecified site