Simultaneous high-performance liquid chromatography analysis of azithromycin and two of its metabolites in human tears and plasma

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 680-684

  Raines, Dale A ^a   Yusuf, Ahmed ^a   Jabak, Monzer H ^b   Ahmed, Wael S ^b   Karcioglu, Zeynel A ^b   El Yazigi, Adnan ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING KHALED EYE SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Azithromycin; Electrochemical detection; Liquid chromatography; Metabolites; Plasma; Tears

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BLEOMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DAUNORUBICIN; DOXORUBICIN; DRUG METABOLITE; ETOPOSIDE; GENTAMICIN; IBUPROFEN; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; PARACETAMOL; RIFAMPICIN; SISOMICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TENIPOSIDE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG RETENTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LACRIMAL FLUID LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHOMA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLASMA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEARS;

EID: 0031727429     PISSN: 01634356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007691-199812000-00018     Document Type: Article

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