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Infection Clinical criteria: Patient must have a condition requiring prolonged oral antibiotic therapy.
“It binds to the 50S subunit of the 70S ribosome, thereby disrupting bacterial protein synthesis.”
“The mean half-life of roxithromycin is approximately 12 hours in young adults and 20 hours in children.”
“Roxithromycin is a weak CYP3A inhibitor. The effect of roxithromycin on exposure to drugs predominantly cleared by CYP3A metabolism would be expected to be 2-fold or less.”
Working under the parallel aged-care framework? Aged-care equivalent →
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