: To treat acne, why can Azithromycin be ingested just thrice weekly? To treat acne, most tetracyclines must be ingested daily for at least 6 weeks. So why only thrice weekly for 500 mg oral Azithromycin? Table 1 in this article

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To treat acne, why can Azithromycin be ingested just thrice weekly?
To treat acne, most tetracyclines must be ingested daily for at least 6 weeks. So why only thrice weekly for 500 mg oral Azithromycin? Table 1 in this article adduces

[First line of table] Ullah et al., 2014 (21)   [...]   Doxycycline 100 mg/day

Bardazzi et al., 2007 (32)   [...]   Azithromycin: 500 mg thrice weekly

[Last line of table] Gruber et al., 1998 (42)   [...]   minocycline 100 mg/day for 6 weeks

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