12 Facts About Amoxicillin

Amoxicillin is an antibiotic medication used to treat a number of bacterial infections.

Amoxicillin was discovered in 1958 and came into medical use in 1972.

Amoxicillin is used in the treatment of a number of infections, including acute otitis media, streptococcal pharyngitis, pneumonia, skin infections, urinary tract infections, Salmonella infections, Lyme disease, and chlamydia infections.

Amoxicillin is recommended as the preferred first-line treatment for community-acquired pneumonia in adults by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, either alone or in combination with a macrolide.

Amoxicillin is used in post-exposure inhalation of anthrax to prevent disease progression and for prophylaxis.

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Amoxicillin is effective for treatment of early cutaneous Lyme borreliosis; the effectiveness and safety of oral amoxicillin is neither better nor worse than common alternatively-used antibiotics.

Amoxicillin is occasionally used for the treatment of skin infections, such as acne vulgaris.

Amoxicillin is recommended by the World Health Organization for the treatment of infants with signs and symptoms of pneumonia in resource-limited situations when the parents are unable or unwilling to accept hospitalization of the child.

Amoxicillin is susceptible to degradation by ß-lactamase-producing bacteria, which are resistant to most ß-lactam antibiotics, such as penicillin.

Amoxicillin is a semisynthetic derivative of penicillin with a structure similar to ampicillin but with better absorption when taken by mouth, thus yielding higher concentrations in blood and in urine.

Amoxicillin was one of several semisynthetic derivatives of 6-aminopenicillanic acid developed by the Beecham Group in the 1960s.

Amoxicillin is one of the semisynthetic penicillins discovered by Beecham scientists.