Doxycycline Impurities

Doxycycline is a broad-spectrum bacteriostatic drug (antibiotic) synthesised from oxytetracycline, a found naturally tetracycline synthesized by Streptomyces species bacteria; it falls to the tetracycline family of antibiotics.

Doxycycline is prescribed for the prevention or treatment such as rickettsial infections, sexually transmitted diseases, respiratory tract infections, bacterial infections, Lyme disease, ocular infections, anthrax, acute intestinal amebiasis, traveler’s diarrhoea, and severe acne are some of the conditions that can occur. It has also been studied as a cancer therapy since some research show that doxycycline can reduce cell proliferation and invasion, induce apoptosis, and prevent the gap phase (in which a cancerous cell grows and prepares to synthesis DNA).

Doxycycline is available as a capsule, tablet, delayed-release tablet, and oral suspension (liquid).

Doxycycline is efficient against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, spirochetes, and mycoplasma.