BACTROBAN 2% Cream Ref.[9582] Active ingredients: Mupirocin

Source: Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (GB)  Revision Year: 2020  Publisher: Beecham Group plc, 980 Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 9GS Trading as: GlaxoSmithKline UK

Product name and form

Bactroban 2% cream.

Pharmaceutical Form

Cream.

Bactroban Cream is presented as a white cream of homogeneous appearance.

Qualitative and quantitative composition

Each gram of cream contains: 21.5 mg Mupirocin calcium equivalent to 20.0 mg mupirocin.

For a full list of excipients, see section 6.1.

Active Ingredient Description
Mupirocin

Mupirocin is a novel antibiotic produced through fermentation by Pseudomonas fluorescens. Mupirocin inhibits isoleucyl transfer-RNA synthetase, thereby arresting bacterial protein synthesis. Mupirocin has bacteriostatic properties at minimum inhibitory concentrations and bactericidal properties at the higher concentrations reached when applied locally.

List of Excipients

Xanthan gum
Liquid paraffin
Cetomacrogol 1000
Stearyl alcohol
Cetyl alcohol
Phenoxyethanol
Benzyl alcohol
Purified water

Pack sizes and marketing

Squeezable aluminium tubes with a screw cap containing 15 g of white cream.

Marketing authorization holder

Beecham Group plc, 980 Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 9GS

Trading as: GlaxoSmithKline UK

Marketing authorization dates and numbers

PL 00038/0372

28 October 1998

Drugs

Drug Countries
BACTROBAN Austria, Australia, Brazil, Cyprus, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, South Africa

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