Tetracycline antibiotics

Tetracycline antibiotics are a group of broad-spectrum antibacterial agents and feed additives that include popularly used antibiotics such as tetracycline, oxytetracycline, and chlortetracycline. They exhibit activity against a wide range of microorganisms including Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, chlamydiae, mycoplasmas, rickettsiae, and protozoan parasites.From: Aqueous Phase Adsorption [2018], Critical evaluation of rate coefficients for hydroxyl radical reactions with antibiotics: A review [2018]

Abiotic Removal with Adsorption and Photocatalytic Reaction

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Published in Jayant K. Singh, Nishith Verma, Aqueous Phase Adsorption, 2018

Robert Chang-Tang Chang, Bor-Yann Chen, Ke-Fu Zhou, Qiao-Jie Yu, Xiao-Dan Xie, Mridula P. Menon, Arun Kumar Subramani

Popularly used antibiotics such as tetracycline (tetracycline, TC), oxytetracycline (oxytetracycline, OTC) and chlortetracycline (chlortetracycline, CTC) are three kinds of tetracycline antibiotics (tetracycline antibiotics, TCs) that are widely used as broad-spectrum antibacterial agents and feed additives in human medical treatments, animal husbandry, and fisheries. Approximately 50% to 80% of TCs is released as the non-metabolic prototype via excrements of the human or animal bodies, and drained into the sewage system or directly into the water environment [12]. Their typical molecular structures and chemical properties are shown in Table 8.1.

Critical evaluation of rate coefficients for hydroxyl radical reactions with antibiotics: A review

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Published in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2018

László Wojnárovits, Tünde Tóth, Erzsébet Takács

Tetracyclines inhibit protein synthesis by preventing the attachment of aminoacyl-tRNA to the ribosomal acceptor (A) site. The tetracycline antibiotics exhibit activity against a wide range of microorganisms including Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, chlamydiae, mycoplasmas, rickettsiae, and protozoan parasites. These inexpensive antibiotics have been used extensively in the prophylaxis and therapy of human and animal infections and also at subtherapeutic levels in animal feed as growth promoters (Chopra and Roberts, 2001).

Tetracycline antibiotics

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