a macrolide antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections. Clarithromycin is used as treatment and prophylaxis for Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). Side effects include nausea, taste changes and abdominal pain.

Indications: Treatment of MAC infection in combination with other agents; prophylaxis of MAC infection. Contraindications: Known hypersensitivity to macrolide antibiotics. Dosage: MAC treatment and prophylaxis: 500 mg po bid. Toxicity: Gastrointestinal intolerance, abnormal liver function tests. Pregnancy category C; teratogenic in animals.

An antibiotic drug used to treat infection. It belongs to the family of drugs called macrolides.

Clarithromycin is a macrolide antibiotic used to treat pharyngitis, tonsillitis, acute maxillary sinusitis, acute bacterial exacerbation of chronic bronchitis, pneumonia (especially atypical pneumonias associated with Chlamydia pneumoniae or TWAR), skin and skin structure infections, and, in HIV and AIDS patients to prevent, and to treat, disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex or MAC. In addition, it is sometimes used to treat Legionellosis.