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Chloramphenicol is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that was first isolated from Streptomyces venezuelae in 1947. The drug was subsequently chemically synthesized. It has both a bacteriostatic and bactericidal effect; in the usual therapeutic concentrations it is bacteriostatic. Chloramphenicol is used for the treatment of serious gram-negative, gram-positive, and anaerobic infections. It is especially useful in the treatment of meningitis, typhoid fever, and cystic fibrosis. It should be reserved for infections for which other drugs are ineffective or contraindicated. Chloramphenicol, a small inhibitor of bacterial protein synthesis, is active against a variety of bacteria and readily enters the CSF. It has been used extensively in the last decades for the treatment of bacterial meningitis. In industrialized countries, chloramphenicol is restricted mostly to topical uses because of the risk of induction of aplastic anemia. However, it remains a valuable reserve antibiotic for patients with allergy to β-lactam antibiotics or with CNS infections caused by multiresistant pathogens.   NCATS

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amphicol | brochlor | brolene antibiotic | chloramex | chloramphenicol | chloramphenicol hemisuccinate | chloramphenicol monosuccinate | chloramphenicol monosuccinate sodium salt | chloramphenicol sodium succinate | chloramphenicol succinate | chloramphenicol succinate sodium | chloramphenicol succinic acid | chloramphenicolum | chlorbiotic | chlornitromycin | chlorocid | chlorocidin | chlorocol | chlorofair | chloromyccetin sod succ | chloromycetin | chloroptic | chloroptic s.o.p. | cloramfenicol | cloramphenicol | d-(-)-2,2-dichloro-n-(beta-hydroxy-alpha-(hydroxymethyl)-p-nitrophenylethyl)acetamide | d-(-)-threo-1-p-nitrophenyl-2-dichloroacetylamino-1,3-propanediol | econochlor | fenicol | globenicol | golden eye antibiotic | halomycetin | kemicetine | kernispray | klorafect | laevomycetinum | levomicetina | levomycetin | levomycetin sodium succinate | levomycetin succinate | mychel | mychel-s | oleomycetin | ophthochlor | optomycin | paraxin | protophenicol | sificetina | sno phenicol | sodium chloramphenicol succinate | synthomycine | tevcocin | threolone | tubilux infected eyes

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