Applications

Tetracycline is a broad spectrum polyketide antibiotic. It is used clinically to treat bacterial infections such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus fever, tick fevers, Q fever and Brill-Zinsser disease. It is used to treat upper respiratory infections and acne¹. It is used to study multidrug resistance² as well as potential side effects such as acute pancreatitis³. It has been used in target and resistance based mechanistic studies of novel antibiotics⁴.