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Organic Chemicals > Nitro Compounds > Nitrobenzenes > Chloramphenicol
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Preferred term

Chloramphenicol  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Cloranfenicol
  • Kloramfenikol

Note

  • an antibiotic

Scope note

  • An antibiotic first isolated from cultures of Streptomyces venequelae in 1947 but now produced synthetically. It has a relatively simple structure and was the first broad-spectrum antibiotic to be discovered. It acts by interfering with bacterial protein synthesis and is mainly bacteriostatic. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 29th ed, p106)

In other languages

  • kloramfenikoli

    Finnish

  • chloramphenicolum
  • Chloromycetin
  • Minims Chloramphenicol
  • Oftan Akvakol
  • Oftan Chlora
  • Oftan Kloramfenikol
  • Kloramfenikol

    Swedish

  • Chloromycetin
  • Kloromycetin
  • Levomycetin

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002701

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