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All right, so let's get into the drug of the day today, and that is doxycycline.

Brand name is vibramycin.

In all honesty, I don't hear people call it that very often.

It's pretty much always doxocycline in clinical practice.

It is a tetracycline derivative,

and this is from the class of antibiotics, the tetracyclines.

And with that, the dosing is very similar and common in many, many conditions.

So 100 milligrams twice a day is kind of the standard treatment for any bacterial infection.

There's a couple of exceptions to that, but by and large, 100 milligrams twice a day is what you most frequently see as far as dosing goes.

Mechanistically, this drug binds the 30s, ribosomal portion of the ribosomal subunits,

which ultimately impairs protein synthesis of bacteria.

So as far as the replication growth process,

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