Description

Amoxicillin is a broad-spectrum antibiotic belonging to the beta-lactam group. It is a semi-synthetic penicillin sensitive to penicillinase.

Amoxicillin disrupts bacterial cell wall synthesis by inhibiting transpeptidase and carboxypeptidase enzymes, causing osmotic imbalance and bacterial death during the growth phase. Amoxicillin has activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria: Actinobacillus lignieresi, Actinobacillus equili, Bordetella bronchiseptica, Escherichia coli (except beta-lactamase-producing strains), Corynebacterium spp., Fusobacteppla. Spp. mirabilis (except beta-lactamase-producing strains), Salmonella spp., Actinomyces bovis, Bacillus anthracis, Clostridium spp., Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, Streptococcus spp., Staphylococcus spp. (except beta-lactamase producing strains).