ANTIBIOTICS-PHARMD MNEMONIC

These are the different classes of medications and their mechanism of action. I’ve sorted them by
which ones are exclusively Gram + or Gram – and which ones do both.

Here’s a handy mnemonic for remembering the antibiotics that act on the ribosomes (I find they’re the most confusing to remember):

Buy AT 30
Aminoglycosides
Tetracyclines

CELL for 50
Clindamycin
Erythromycin
Linezolid