Susceptibility of Micro-organisms to Chloramphenicol (chloromycetin).

Effect of chloramphenicol on the isolation of S. typhi from the blood stream.

The usually excellent clinical response to chloramphenicol in typhoid fever has been accompanied in practically all the recorded series by a rapid disappearance of organisms from the blood stream. Cook and Marmion (1949) state: " The action of 'chloromycetin' appears to be to arrest the disease at whatever stage it has reached and to sterilize the blood at the same time." Marmion (1952) in a se...

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Mannheimia haemolytica and Pasteurella multocida isolated from calves with dairy calf pneumonia

  This study evaluated the nasopharyngeal microbial flora and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of the one hundred and thirty Holstein calves with dairy calf pneumonia from dairy farms of Mashhad Suburb between September 2002 and August 2003 . The most common micro-organisms isolated were Pasteurella multocida 80 (61.54%), Mannheimia haemolytica 41 (31.54%), Bacillus sp. 15 (11.54%), Staphy...

Preliminary Report on the Use of Chloramphenicol (chloromycetin) in the Treatment of Acute Gonorrheal Urethritis.

Chloramphenicol (chloromycetin) in the Treatment of Tsutsugamushi Disease (scrub Typhus).

The present paper augments information previously published on the first 25 patients with scrub typhus to receive chloromycetin (1) and reviews our experience in the use of this drug in the treatment of a total of 69 persons who contracted tsutsugamushi disease in the vicinity of Kuala Lumpur, Federation of Malaya. The results obtained in this group are compared with those observed in 19 patien...

A study to compare the use of fusidic acid viscous eye drops and chloramphenicol eye ointment in an accident and emergency department.

A total of 300 patients attending an Accident and Emergency department with ophthalmic complaints needing topical antibiotic treatment were treated with fucithalmic or chloramphenicol (chloromycetin). Their compliance and the incidence of side effects were assessed. There was a 70.3% response rate to the questionnaire. Of the patients 51.3% using fucithalmic completed the 5 day course compared ...