Tetracycline is an antibiotic that fights infection caused by bacteria.

Tetracycline is used to treat many different bacterial infections of the skin, intestines, respiratory tract, urinary tract, genitals, lymph nodes, and other body systems. It is often used in treating severe acne, or sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea, or chlamydia.

Tetracycline is also used to treat infections you can get from direct contact with infected animals or contaminated food.

In some cases, tetracycline is used when penicillin or another antibiotic cannot be used to treat serious infections such as Anthrax, Listeria, Clostridium, Actinomyces, and others.

This product has certain antibacterial effect on some anaerobic bacteria, but it is far less than metronidazole, clindamycin and chloramphenicol, so it is not used clinically. Over the years, due to the wide application of tetracyclines, common clinical pathogens include Gram-positive bacteria such as Staphylococcus and Gram-negative bacilli such as Enterobacter to tetracycline

Moreover, there is cross-resistance between similar varieties. The mechanism of action of this product is that the drug can specifically bind to the A position of the 30S subunit of the bacterial ribosome, preventing the attachment of the aminoacyl-tRNA at this position, thereby inhibiting the growth of the peptide linkage and affecting the synthesis of bacterial proteins.
It is preferred for the treatment of non-bacterial infections such as chlamydial infection, rickettsial disease, mycoplasmal pneumonia, regressive fever, etc. It is also used for brucellosis, cholera, rabbit fever, rat bite fever, anthrax, tetanus, plague, and Treatment of respiratory diseases, bile ducts, urinary tract infections, and skin and soft tissue infections caused by mites, gas gangrene, and sensitive bacteria.