Penicillins

{{#badges: ToxicSludge}} Penicillins are a category of antibiotic pharmaceuticals.

Antibiotics are divided into a number of categories:

• Amoxicillin (Brand names: Amoxil, Polymox, Trimox, Wymox)
• Ampicillin (Brand names: Omnipen, Polycillin, Polycillin-N, Principen, Totacillin)
• Bacampicillin (Brand name: Spectrobid)
• Carbenicillin (Brand names: Geocillin, Geopen)
• Cloxacillin (Brand name: Cloxapen)
• Dicloxacillin (Brand names: Dynapen, Dycill, Pathocil)
• Flucloxacillin (Brand names: Flopen, Floxapen, Staphcillin)
• Mezlocillin (Brand name: Mezlin)
• Nafcillin (Brand names: Nafcil, Nallpen, Unipen)
• Oxacillin (Brand names: Bactocill, Prostaphlin)
• Penicillin G (Brand name: Bicillin L-A, Crysticillin 300 A.S., Pentids, Permapen, Pfizerpen, Pfizerpen-AS, Wycillin)
• Penicillin V (Brand names: Beepen-VK, Betapen-VK, Ledercillin VK, Pen Vee K, V-Cillin K, Veetids)
• Piperacillin (Brand name: Pipracil)
• Pivampicillin
• Pivmecillinam
• Ticarcillin (Brand name: Ticar)

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