Glycopeptide antibiotic

Glycopeptide
Drug class
Vancomycin, a glycopeptide
Class identifiers
UseBacterial infection
ATC codeJ01X
Biological targetinhibit peptidoglycan synthesis
Clinical data
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Glycopeptide antibiotics are a class of drugs of microbial origin that are composed of glycosylated cyclic or polycyclic nonribosomal peptides. Significant glycopeptide antibiotics include the anti-infective antibiotics vancomycin, teicoplanin, telavancin, ramoplanin, avoparcin and decaplanin, corbomycin, complestatin and the antitumor antibiotic bleomycin. Vancomycin is used if infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is suspected.

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