From a chemical point of view, amoxicillin - like, indeed, all penicillins - belongs to the group of beta-lactam antibiotics.
Amoxicillin is available in many medicines, either alone or in combination with clavulanic acid or its salts (generally, potassium clavulanate).
Generally, amoxicillin is administered orally; in fact, the medicines that contain it are formulated as tablets, capsules, powder for oral suspension, ready-to-use oral suspension or oral drops suspension. These are medicines that normally require a repeatable medical prescription to be sold; however, many of these are classified as class A drugs, their cost can therefore be reimbursed by the National Health System (SSN), in whole or in part (in some cases it is necessary to pay a ticket).
To be fair, amoxicillin is also available in medicines suitable for parenteral administration (powder for solution for infusion), but their use is usually reserved for the hospital setting only, or in any case they require a non-repeatable limitative medical prescription (RNRL - drugs that can be sold to the public only on prescription from hospitals or specialists) in order to be sold; therefore, they they will not be considered in this article.
