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Macrolides are antibiotics having a large ring in the molecular structure. The ring may be 12-, 14- or 16-membered but no 12-membered ring macrolides are used medicinally. Only three are used to any extent in aquaculture — erythromycin which has a 14-membered ring, and spiramycin and josamycin both of which have 16-membered rings. Nearly all macrolides are mixtures of a few (in the case of erythromycin, four) closely related compounds.
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Treves-Brown, K.M. (2000). Macrolides. In: Applied Fish Pharmacology. Aquaculture, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0761-9_7
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