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Sulfanilamides

Medical Definition:
Guide Notes:	anti-infectives; GEN; prefer specific sulfanilamide anti-infective

Sulfanilamides Categories.

	Furosemide - A sulfamyl saluretic and diuretic. It has a fast onset and short duration of action and is used in edema and chronic renal insufficiency.
	Sulfacetamide - An anti-infective agent that is used topically to treat skin infections and orally for urinary tract infections.
	Sulfachlorpyridazine - A sulfonamide antimicrobial used for urinary tract infections and in veterinary medicine.
	Sulfadiazine - One of the short-acting SULFONAMIDES used in combination with PYRIMETHAMINE to treat toxoplasmosis in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and in newborns with congenital infections.
	Sulfadimethoxine - A sulfanilamide that is used as an anti-infective agent.
	Sulfadoxine - A long acting sulfonamide that is used, usually in combination with other drugs, for respiratory, urinary tract, and malarial infections.
	Sulfaguanidine - A sulfanilamide antimicrobial agent that is used to treat enteric infections.
	Sulfalene - Long-acting plasma-bound sulfonamide used for respiratory and urinary tract infections and also for malaria.
	Sulfamerazine - A sulfanilamide that is used as an antibacterial agent.
	Sulfameter - Long acting sulfonamide used in leprosy, urinary, and respiratory tract infections.
	Sulfamethazine - A sulfanilamide anti-infective agent. It has a spectrum of antimicrobial action similar to other sulfonamides.
	Sulfamethoxazole - A bacteriostatic antibacterial agent that interferes with folic acid synthesis in susceptible bacteria. Its broad spectrum of activity has been limited by the development of resistance. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p208)
	Sulfamethoxypyridazine - A sulfanilamide antibacterial agent.
	Sulfamonomethoxine - Long acting sulfonamide antibacterial agent.
	Sulfamoxole - A sulfanilamide antibacterial agent.
	Sulfaphenazole - A sulfonilamide anti-infective agent.
	Sulfapyridine - Antibacterial, potentially toxic, used to treat certain skin diseases.
	Sulfaquinoxaline - An antiprotozoal agent used to combat coccidial infections of swine, cattle, fowl, and other veterinary animals. Also used in controlling outbreaks of fowl typhoid and fowl cholera and in treatment of infectious enteritis.
	Sulfathiazoles
	Sulfisomidine - A sulfanilamide antibacterial agent.
	Sulfisoxazole - A short-acting sulfonamide antibacterial with activity against a wide range of gram- negative and gram-positive organisms.

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