Description
The ointment is light yellow to yellow-brown in color.
Composition
1 g of the preparation contains the active substance:
oxytetracycline hydrochloride - 50 mg.
Excipients: anthracene-55, lanolin, petroleum jelly.
Pharmacological properties
The ointment has pronounced bacteriostatic properties, which are due to the action of oxytetracycline — a broad-spectrum antibiotic with antimicrobial activity, effective against most gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria (Staphylococcus spp., Streptococcus spp., Pasteurella spp., Salmonella spp. etc.), as well as rickettsiae (Rickettsia spp.), some species of chlamydia (Chlamydia spp.) and mycoplasmas (Mycoplasma