"Chloramphenicol" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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)
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D002701
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.033.455.706.300 D02.455.426.559.389.565.175 D02.640.529.175
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| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Chloramphenicol" by people in Profiles.
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Ben-Chetrit E, Bnaya A, Barchad OW, Vedder K, Katz DE. Chloramphenicol treatment revisited - demographics, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of hospitalized patients. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2024 Aug; 43(8):1667-1671.
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Carone BR, Xu T, Murphy KC, Marinus MG. High incidence of multiple antibiotic resistant cells in cultures of in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7. Mutat Res. 2014 Jan; 759:1-8.
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Yadava N, Houchens T, Potluri P, Scheffler IE. Development and characterization of a conditional mitochondrial complex I assembly system. J Biol Chem. 2004 Mar 26; 279(13):12406-13.
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Baine WB, Farmer JJ, Gangarosa EJ, Hermann GT, Thornsberry C, Rice PA. Typhoid fever in the United States associated with the 1972-1973 epidemic in Mexico. J Infect Dis. 1977 Apr; 135(4):649-53.