The World Health Organization's ATC classification organizes medical drugs based on therapeutic properties, chemical composition, and anatomy. It helps make essential medicines readily available globally and is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.
| Level | Code | Title | |
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1
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A | Alimentary tract and metabolism | |
2
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A07 | Antidiarrheals, intestinal antiinflammatory/antiinfective agents | |
3
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A07A | Intestinal antiinfectives | |
4
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A07AA | Antibiotics | |
5
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A07AA08 | Kanamycin |
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Kanamycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic. Aminoglycosides work by binding to the bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit, causing misreading of t-RNA, leaving the bacterium unable to synthesize proteins vital to its growth. |