Chloramphenicol is a bacteriostatic antibiotic originally derived from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae, isolated by David Gottlieb, and introduced into clinical practice in 1949.

It was the first antibiotic to be manufactured synthetically on a large scale. Chloramphenicol is effective against a wide variety of microorganisms; it is still very widely used in low income countries because it is exceedingly cheap, but has fallen out of favour in the West due to a very rare idiosyncratic side effect: aplastic anemia, which is uniformly fatal when it occurs.

In the West, the main use of chloramphenicol is in eye drops or ointment for bacterial conjunctivitis.

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chloramphenicol http://bit.ly/4EyeXc does it cause hypo na in pt with y mountain spotted fever?
usmleforum (USMLE Forum) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:05:35 -0000
chloramphenicol http://bit.ly/4EyeXc does it cause hypo na in pt with y mountain spotted fever?
my left eye is hurting real bad...some form of conjunctivitis, cos there is sparing of the cornea. chloramphenicol is not doing the trick
Dr_Que (Dr. Akuffo K.Quarde) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:47:38 -0000
my left eye is hurting real bad...some form of conjunctivitis, cos there is sparing of the cornea. chloramphenicol is not doing the trick
eye infection. doc prescribed me chloramphenicol drops and ointment. but i just made those agar plat Subscribe to Chloramphenicol RSS feed