Elite Pharmaceuticals Inc (ELTP)

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From an internist's perspective, doxycycline hyclate is a great drug. Probably my favorite antibiotic overall. I prescribe a lot of doxy. Excellent respiratory coverage, including pneumonia and sinusitis. Excellent for skin. Allergies are uncommon, and it is well-tolerated from a G.I. perspective. It is also not frequently associated with antibiotic-associated opportunistic infections, like clostridium difficile diarrhea, which is a real killer. But what really sets doxy apart from other classes, though, is that it nicely covers MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staph), which used to be mainly a hospital-acquired bug but now has become ubiquitous in the community. In my experience, if I treat skin without covering MRSA, I often regret it and have to add it on later, so I usually try to start from the beginning with an antibiotic that will do the job. The problem for us all is that there aren't many antibiotics that cover MRSA, and certainly not oral drugs as efficacious and well-tolerated as doxy. While it seems like many of Elite's generic drugs are relics from the past, doxycycline hyclate is an antibiotic for now and for the future.