Linezolid carries a warning for risk of serotonin syndrome when taken concomitantly with serotonergic antidepressants. What is the mechanism for this drug-drug interaction?
Linezolid has some reversible inhibitory effect on monoamine oxidase (MAO).
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Contributed by: Michael Mullins, MD
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