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The tetracycline antibiotics, I, are a group of natural products having notable antibacterial activity toward a broad range of pathogenic microorganisms and characterized by very low toxicity to the mammalian hosts of these pathogens. These properties, together with the fact that the compounds are well absorbed and fully active when administered orally, have made the tetracyclines one of the most useful families of chemotherapeutic agents.
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McCormick, J.R.D. (1967). Tetracyclines. In: Gottlieb, D., Shaw, P.D. (eds) Biosynthesis. Antibiotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38441-1_11
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