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Rifamycins (medicine)


rifamycins
<chemical> A group of antibiotics characterised by a chromophoric naphthohydroquinone group spanned by an aliphatic bridge not previously found in other known antibiotics. They have been isolated from fermentation broths of streptomyces mediterranei.

Pharmacological action: antibiotics.