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Rifamycin
A family of antibiotics discovered in 1957 in Milan by Piero Sensi and Maria Teresa Timbal, with Israeli scientist Pinhas Margalith, in a soil bacterium now called Amycolatopsis rifamycinica; it includes rifampicin, key against tuberculosis and leprosy. This family brings together the active ingredient and other impurities.
Did you know?The name was inspired by the 1955 French film 'Rififi'; the bacterium had been isolated from a soil sample collected near Saint-Raphaël, in the south of France.
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EDQM standards 3
The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.
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Custom synthesis of impurities, metabolites and labelled compounds, with the same characterisation level.
