Talk:Lincomycin

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Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Lincomycin.

PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles)
The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

When discovered and when approved for clinical use[edit]

When was it discovered and when approved for clinical use ? - Rod57 (talk) 12:35, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comparison to macrolides[edit]

Under the 'Uses' heading the article states "Although similar in structure, antibacterial spectrum, and mechanism of action to macrolides...". Its activity and mechanism may be similar but its structure is very different from the macrolides — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.221.18 (talk) 15:18, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agree; I've changed it for you.--Quisqualis (talk) 21:57, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]