Talk:Demeclocycline

Demeclocycline is NOT semisynthetic
According to Elks et al. and Chopra et al. Demeclocycline is NOT a semisynthetic drug. Instead it is produced naturally by a genetically modified strain of Streptomyces. The author of the cited review, I. Chopra, used to work for one of the leading manufacturers of this compound, even more as a specialist for tetracyclines, who published many more papers on this topic. He must have known this. Same is also supported by the DailyMed entry. (I updated the existing link.) J. M. Hall, however who just made a short lexicon entry, most likely mistook her statement form the fact that the drug is used for producing semisynthetic derivatives like Minocycline and Doxycycline. The entry in Dorland's Medical Dictionary is not available anymore. Thus, I took off the latter two references, which obviously are misleading and simply removed the statement that Demeclocycline is semisynthetic.--Asigler (talk) 22:20, 11 October 2018 (UTC)