Tetracycline (NSC108579)

Description: Tetracycline (NSC-108579, Sumycin among others) is a potent and broad-spectrum antibiotic used to treat a number of infections such as gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. This includes acne, cholera, brucellosis, plague, malaria, and syphilis. It possesses some level of bacteriostatic activity against almost all medically relevant aerobic and anaerobic bacterial genera, both Gram-positive and Gram-negative.