Aminoglycoside Antibiotics

Aminoglycoside antibiotics are a class of antibiotic primarily used to treat bacterial infections caused by the aerobic gram-negative bacilli. They can also be used to treat staphylococci and mycobacterium tuberculosis. Aminoglycosides inhibit the protein synthesis inside bacteria, needed for it to survive. Aminoglycosides antibiotics are not absorbed well orally, so need to be administered by injection. Commonly prescribed aminoglycoside antibiotics prescribed include tobramycin systemic, paromomycin systemic and gentamicin systemic.

Drugs classified as Aminoglycoside Antibiotics are frequently used to treat the following conditions:

• Cystic Fibrosis
• Hepatic Encephalopathy
• Amoebiasis
• Meningitis
• Eye Infection
• Eye Inflammation
• Pneumonia
• bacterial conjunctivitis
• blepharoconjunctivitis
• bone and joint infections
• burn wound infection
• intraabdominal infections
• nosocomial pneumonia
• sepsis
• community-acquired pneumonia
• dacryocystitis
• keratoconjunctivitis
• keratitis
• lower respiratory tract infections

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