The interaction of erythromycin with polymeric sorbents adjusted to the antibiotic molecule

Cross-linked carboxylic cationites adjusted to sorption of the antibacterial antibiotic erythromycin were obtained by radical copolymerization of methacrylic acid, erythromycin methacrylate, and ethylene glycol dimethacrylate as a cross-linking agent. Studies of the sorption and desorption of erythromycin showed that adjusted sorbents had favorable equilibrium and kinetic characteristics of sorption and the ability to reversibly desorb the antibiotic. Original Russian Text ? O.A. Pisarev, N.M. Ezhova, I.S. Garkushina, 2009, published in Zhurnal Fizicheskoi Khimii, 2009, Vol. 83, No. 1, pp. 142–146.