Chemical compound and macroslide antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections as well as chronic inflammatory disorders
Application in medicine
Azithromycin is used primarily for the treatment of infectious respiratory diseases (both lower and upper respiratory tract). This is due to good tolerance, the effect of the antibiotic on typical and atypical pathogens of such diseases, as well as some non-antimicrobial properties of the drug.
It is also used in the treatment of urogenital infections, infections of the skin and soft tissues, orodental infections, tick-borne borreliosis, intestinal infections. As part of combination therapy, it is used for gastric and duodenal ulcer associated with Helicobacter pylori