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Sulesomab

Sulesomab (LeukoScan) is a murine Fab' antibody fragment targeting granulocyte NCA-90, labeled with technetium-99m to image suspected osteomyelitis. EU-approved 1997, withdrawn 2018; never FDA-approved.

Suletta Mercury (スレッタ・マーキュリー)

Suletta Mercury (スレッタ・マーキュリー) is the female protagonist of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022), voiced by Kana Ichinose. A timid transfer student from Mercury and Earth House member, she pilots the Gundam Aerial.

Süleyman Askeri

Süleyman Askeri (سليمان عسكري, 1884–1915) was an Ottoman officer, first head of the Teshkilat-i Mahsusa special organization and General Commander of Iraq from December 1914.

Süleyman Çelebi

Süleyman Çelebi (سليمان چلبی) was an Ottoman prince, a son of Bayezid I, who ruled the European half of the Ottoman realm from 1402 to 1411 during the Interregnum.

Süleyman Demirel

Süleyman Demirel (1924–2015), Turkish civil engineer and center-right politician; Justice Party and True Path Party leader, seven-time prime minister, removed by the 1971 memorandum and 1980 coup, and ninth President of Turkey 1993–2000.

Süleyman Hüsnü Paşa

Süleyman Hüsnü Paşa (سلیمان پاشا) was an Ottoman general and military educator who helped depose Sultan Abdulaziz in 1876, fought in the Russo-Turkish war, and died in exile in Baghdad in 1892.

Suleyman Kerimov (Сулейман Абусаидович Керимов)

Suleyman Kerimov (Сулейман Абусаидович Керимов) is a Dagestan-born Russian billionaire investor and politician who has represented Dagestan in the Federation Council since 2008 and was US-sanctioned in 2018.

Süleyman Nazif

Süleyman Nazif (1869 or 1870, Diyarbakır – 1927) was an Ottoman poet, journalist, and governor in the Servet-i Fünûn circle, remembered for polemical prose and resisting the Allied occupation of Istanbul.

Süleyman Pasha

Süleyman Pasha, remembered as Rumeli Fatihi, was a son of the Ottoman bey Orhan who seized Gallipoli in 1354, establishing the first permanent Ottoman foothold in Europe.

Suleyman Sani Akhundov

Suleyman Sani Akhundov (Azerbaijani: Süleyman Sani Axundov, 1875–1939) was an Azerbaijani playwright, journalist, teacher, and children's author, a founder of Azerbaijani children's literature best known for his Scary Tales cycle.

Suleyman Shah

Suleyman Shah (Süleyman Şah), traditional grandfather of Osman I and father of Ertuğrul; his tomb at Caber Castle, Syria, was Turkish treaty territory, relocated by Turkey's 2015 Şah Fırat operation.

Süleymaniye Mosque

The Süleymaniye Mosque (Süleymaniye Camii) is an Ottoman imperial mosque on Istanbul's third hill, designed by Mimar Sinan for Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent and built between 1550 and 1557.

Süleymaniye'de Bayram Sabahı

Süleymaniye'de Bayram Sabahı ("Bayram Morning at Süleymaniye") is an epic poem by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı depicting a bayram morning at Istanbul's Süleymaniye Mosque, published in 1957 and opening his 1961 collection Kendi Gök Kubbemiz.

Süleymanname

The Süleymanname is an illustrated Ottoman court history in Persian verse covering 1520 to 1555 of Sultan Süleyman I's reign, written by the court historiographer Arifi around 1558.

Süleymanname of Matrakçı Nasuh

The Süleymanname of Matrakçı Nasuh, also titled Süleymân-nâme, is a 16th-century illustrated Ottoman history covering Süleyman the Magnificent's reign to 1537, distinguished by topographical miniatures without human figures.

Sulfabenzamide

Sulfabenzamide (CAS 127-71-9) is a synthetic sulfonamide antibacterial, FDA approved 1945, that inhibits bacterial dihydropteroate synthase. Used mainly in the discontinued triple-sulfa vaginal cream with sulfathiazole and sulfacetamide.

Sulfacarbamide

Sulfacarbamide (sulfanilylurea, Urosulfan), CAS 547-44-4, is a withdrawn sulfonamide anti-infective introduced in the 1940s for bacterial infections; Germany withdrew it in 1992 over a negative benefit/risk ratio.

Sulfacetamide

Sulfacetamide (sodium sulfacetamide, Sodium Sulamyd) is a sulfonamide antibiotic used as a 10% ophthalmic solution for bacterial conjunctivitis and, with sulfur, topically for acne, rosacea, and seborrheic dermatitis.

Sulfacytine

Sulfacytine (Renoquid, CAS 17784-12-2) is a short-acting sulfonamide antibiotic, a PABA analog inhibiting dihydropteroate synthetase, taken orally for urinary tract infections; FDA approved 1975, now discontinued.

Sulfadiazine

Sulfadiazine is a short-acting sulfonamide antibiotic introduced in 1941 that blocks folic acid synthesis in bacteria and is combined with pyrimethamine as standard therapy for toxoplasmosis.

Sulfadicramide

Sulfadicramide (Irgamid, sulfirgamide; INN sulfadicramidum) is a sulfanilamide sulfonamide anti-infective, CAS 115-68-4, C11H14N2O3S, ATC S01AB03, used as a 15% ophthalmic ointment in some countries.

Sulfadimethoxine

Sulfadimethoxine is a long-acting sulfonamide antibiotic introduced for human use in 1959 as Madribon, withdrawn in the United States in 1966, and now used mainly in veterinary medicine.

Sulfadoxine

Sulfadoxine is a long-acting sulfonamide antibacterial and antimalarial drug, synthesized in 1962 by Hoffmann-La Roche and used almost exclusively with pyrimethamine (Fansidar) for malaria chemoprevention in Africa.

Sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine

Sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine, sold as Fansidar, is a fixed-dose combination of the antimalarials sulfadoxine and pyrimethamine, approved in 1981 and now used mainly to prevent malaria in pregnant women and children.

Sulfaguanidine

Sulfaguanidine (Sulgin, CAS 57-67-0) is a poorly absorbed sulfonamide intestinal antiinfective (ATC A07AB03, DDD 4 g oral) introduced in 1941 for bacillary dysentery, now mostly veterinary, DHPS/PABA-antifolate mechanism.

Sulfalene

Sulfalene (sulfamethopyrazine, Kelfizine) is a long-acting sulfonamide antibiotic (ATC J01ED02, half-life about 65 h) used for respiratory and urinary infections and, with pyrimethamine as Metakelfin, for falciparum malaria, mainly in the Indian subcontinent.

Sulfamate ester

A sulfamate ester is an organic compound bearing the R–O–SO₂–NR group, an ester of sulfamic acid, best known as the pharmacophore of steroid sulfatase inhibitors for hormone-dependent cancers.

Sulfamerazine

Sulfamerazine is a sulfonamide antibacterial drug, the monomethyl derivative of sulfadiazine, introduced in 1942 and no longer used in human medicine while retaining limited veterinary uses.

Sulfameter

Sulfameter (sulfamethoxydiazine, sulfametoxydiazine, brand Sulla) is a long-acting sulfonamide antibiotic, ATC J01ED04, DDD 0.5 g oral, formerly used for urinary tract infections and leprosy; first approved 1966, now discontinued.

Sulfamethazine

Sulfamethazine, also called sulfadimidine, is a sulfonamide antibacterial drug used to treat bacterial disease in cattle, swine, chickens, and turkeys, and historically to promote growth in food-producing animals.