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What is the difference between the two drugs amoxicillin and amoxycillin?
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∙ 10y ago
Ampicillin is a semi-synthetic antibiotic and penicillin is a natural antibiotic. Either of these can prescribed in liquid or pill form and both are effective for treating bacterial infections.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 12y agoThey are both lactam containing antibiotics, like penicillin, but they differ in the size of the R groups attached to the alpha site of the lactam ring. The larger R group on cloxicillin keeps beta-lactamase from attaching, making it a superior antibiotic to amoxicillin, which is very susceptible to beta-lactamase, in the absence of a beta-lactamase inhibitor such as clavulanic acid. To my knowledge, cloxicillin is not widely used in medicine. This is due to broader spectrum antibiotics taking its place, such as vancomycin.
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∙ 11y agoAmoxycillin is a semi-synthetic version of penicillin. It is absorbed at a higher rate than penicillin, and thus leads to a shorter length of treatment. Amoxycillin also is better at penetrating through tissues, and a has a wider range of infections that it treats.
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∙ 15y agoAmoxicillin is a semi-synthetic version of Penicillin, rarely used in industrial countries nowadays.
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∙ 14y ago=there are no differences==penicillin is an antibiotic=
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∙ 10y agoNo but they are closely related.
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∙ 10y agoboth are same drugs............
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