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Penethacillin

The diethylaminoethyl ester of benzylpenicillin, also known as penethamate: a prodrug that releases penicillin G in the body, used for decades in veterinary medicine, as the hydriodide, mainly against mastitis in cows. This family brings together other impurities.

Did you know?Before becoming a mainly veterinary medicine it was also authorised for human use, in several European countries and in the United States.