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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1991
Filed:
May. 14, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Werner K Stiefel, Coral Gables, FL (US);
Charles F Breunig, Greenville, NY (US);
Assignee:
Stiefel Laboratories, Inc., Coral Gables, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ; A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424 59 ; 424 60 ; 514 29 ; 514859 ; 514944 ;
Abstract
A topical pharmaceutical composition comprising a mixture of (i) at least one topically acceptable UV absorber in a concentration sufficient to block a substantial quantity of sun-generated UV radiation and (ii) an antibacterially effective amount of erythromycin in (iii) an pharmaceutically acceptable topical carrier. A typical formulation contains about 2.2% of erythromycin, about 8% of octyl p-dimethylaminobenzoate, and about 6% of 2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone in a mixture of about 3.8% hydroxypropylcellulose in ethanol.