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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.

Rifamycin SodiumGo to the active ingredient →
Rifamycin BImpurityRifamycin BCat. No. P-R054-005CAS 13929-35-6
Rifamycin LImpurityRifamycin LCat. No. P-R054-017CAS 26117-02-2
Rifamycin YImpurityRifamycin YCat. No. P-R054-022CAS 15271-73-5

EDQM standards 3

The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.

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