Chloromycetin Ointment
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Abdurahman Khalil, M.D. [2]
Overview
Chloramphenicol (INN) is a bacteriostatic antimicrobial that became available in 1949. It is considered a prototypical broad-spectrum antibiotic, alongside the tetracyclines, and as it is both cheap and easy to manufacture it is frequently an antibiotic of choice in the Developing World. Chloromycetin Ointment/eye drops is the use of chloramphenicol as eye drops or ointment forbacterial conjunctivitis.
US Brand Names
Chloromycetin®
FDA Package Insert
Description | Clinical Pharmacology | Indications and Usage | Contraindications | Warnings and Precautions | Adverse Reactions | Dosage and Administration | How Supplied | Labels and Packages
References
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References
http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/lookup.cfm?setid=698aaa0a-9fd3-40c2-ec93-0dc2170a75ba