What is in the Same Family as Amoxicillin?
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The antibiotic amoxicillin is a widely used semi-synthetic form of penicillin, a group of medications that originated with Alexander Fleming's 1928 discovery. Amoxicillin belongs to the **penicillin family** of antibiotics, which itself is a subclass of an even larger and crucial drug class known as beta-lactam antibiotics.
