An antibiotic called doxycycline is used to treat a variety of infections brought on by gram-negative, gram-positive, anaerobic, and other susceptible bacteria.
Oxytetracycline, which was created for the first time in the 1950s, is the source of doxycycline.
Doxycycline blocks the synthesis of bacterial proteins by attaching to a ribosomal subunit and blocking the linking of amino acids. Bacteria are unable to function without proteins.
Bacteriostatic meaning that doxycycline prevents bacteria from multiplying but does not necessarily kill them.
The class of drugs known as tetracycline antibiotics includes doxycycline.
