Oddly, they mention azithromycin, but I found this: http://aac.asm.org/content/50/6/2042.full http://aac.asm.org/content/50/6/2042.full which says: "These re

Oddly, they mention azithromycin, but I found this: http://aac.asm.org/content/50/6/2042.full http://aac.asm.org/content/50/6/2042.full which says: "These results were compared to the inhibitory profiles of other antibiotics that function by inhibiting bacterial protein synthesis. Of these, chloramphenicol and tetracycline were significant inhibitors of mammalian mitochondrial protein synthesis while the macrolides, lincosamides, and aminoglycosides were not." Seems like "doxycycline" would be more precise than "antibiotics"? After all, I assume this effect can not true of those "antibiotics" that are thought to increase the risk of cancer? (I am thinking in particular of metronidazole, and I put the word antibiotics in quotes because metronidazole is a very strange drug that is difficult to classify, and even though it is sometimes used as an antibiotic, it was not initially thought of as an antibiotic.)