Sulfadimidine or sulfamethazine is a
sulfonamide
In organic chemistry, the sulfonamide functional group (also spelled sulphonamide) is an organosulfur group with the Chemical structure, structure . It consists of a sulfonyl group () connected to an amine group (). Relatively speaking this gro ...
antibacterial
An antibiotic is a type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria. It is the most important type of antibacterial agent for fighting bacterial infections, and antibiotic medications are widely used in the treatment and prevention ...
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There are non-standardized abbreviations for it as "sulfadimidine" (abbreviated SDI and more commonly but less reliably SDD) and as "sulfamethazine" (abbreviated SMT and more commonly but less reliably SMZ
). Other names include sulfadimerazine, sulfadimezine, and sulphadimethylpyrimidine.
References
Further reading
* ChemDB
"Sulfamethazine" ''ChemDB'',
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Sulfonamide antibiotics
Pyrimidines
4-Aminophenyl compounds
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