Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Contact, publication, and social network information about Harvard faculty and fellows.

Trimethoprim

"Trimethoprim" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A pyrimidine inhibitor of dihydrofolate reductase, it is an antibacterial related to PYRIMETHAMINE. The interference with folic acid metabolism may cause a depression of hematopoiesis. It is potentiated by SULFONAMIDES and the TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION is the form most often used. It is sometimes used alone as an antimalarial. TRIMETHOPRIM RESISTANCE has been reported.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Trimethoprim" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Trimethoprim" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.