Patent ID: RE39149

Claim:
An oral dosage form of azithromycin which is in the form of a tablet made by wet granulation, which is administrable to a mammal that has eaten, which comprises azithromycin and a disintegrant, and which exhibits no adverse food effect, said dosage form effecting at least about 90% dissolution of azithromycin within about 30 minutes when an amount of the dosage form equivalent to 200 mg of azithromycin is tested as set forth in USP test <711> in a USP-2 dissolution apparatus under conditions at least as stringent as the following: 900 ml sodium phosphate buffer pH 6.0, 37° C., with paddles turning at 100 rpm, provided that said dosage form contains less than a taste-masking amount of an alkaline earth metal oxide or hydroxide.