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Definition
Ophthalmic antibiotics are medicines that kill bacteria that cause eye infections.
Purpose
Ophthalmic antibiotics are applied to the eye, or under the eyelid, to treat eye infections caused by bacteria.
Description
The medicine described here, tobramycin (Tobrex), comes in the form of eye drops or ointment. It is available only with a physician’s prescription.
Recommended dosage
The dosages given here are [...]

Definition
Antibiotics may be informally defined as the subgroup of anti-infectives that are derived from bacterial sources and are used to treat bacterial infections. Other classes of drugs, most notably the sulfonamides, may be effective antibacterials. Similarly, some antibiotics may have secondary uses, such as the use of demeclocycline (Declomycin, a tetracycline derivative) to treat the [...]