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Monobactam Drug Class

Medicines in this drug class are grouped together in the Everyone Healthy medication database. This page is educational only and should not be used as personal prescribing advice.

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Drug class overview

Monobactam overview

Monobactams

Aztreonam. (The square is the beta-lactam. There is a second thiazole ring, but it is not fused to the beta-lactam ring)

Tigemonam

Monobactams are beta-lactam compounds wherein the beta-lactam ring is alone and not fused to another ring (in contrast to most other beta-lactams, which have at least two rings). They work only against Gram-negative bacteria.^{[citation needed]}

The only commercially available monobactam antibiotic is aztreonam.

Other examples of monobactams are tigemonam,^[1] nocardicin A, and tabtoxin.

References

^ Fuchs PC, Jones RN, Barry AL (March 1988). "In vitro antimicrobial activity of tigemonam, a new orally administered monobactam". Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 32 (3): 346–9. PMID 3259122. PMC 172173. http://aac.asm.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=3259122.

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MeSH Monobactams

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