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Chloramphenicol Levomycetin(CAS:56-75-7)
Other name: chloromycetin, Levomycetin
CAS: 56-75-7
EINECS: 200-287-4
Assay: 99% min.
Standard: Enterprise Standard
Packing: 25Kg/cardboard drum
MF: C11H12Cl2N2O5
MW: 323.13
Character: White to grey-white crystalline powder. Very bitter taste. Mp 149.7-150.7 dec. Can be under high vacuum sublimation. Slightly soluble in water (2.5mg/ml, 25 dec), slightly soluble in propylene glycol (150.8mg/ml), soluble in methanol, ethanol, butanol, ethyl acetate, acetone, insoluble in ether, benzene, petroleum ether, vegetable oil.
Usage: Broad spectrum antibiotic obtained from cultures of the soil bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae. It has a broad spectrum of activity against Gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Antibacterial; antirickettsial raw material.
The treatment of typhoid, paratyphoid pharmaceutical of choice for the treatment of anaerobic infections of the effects of medicine, followed by sensitive micro-organisms for a variety of infectious diseases caused by the treatment. Because serious adverse reactions are used less and less.
Antibacterial spectrum, effects and purposes are the same with chloramphenicol. For the treatment of Salmonella typhi, Shigella, E. coli, Haemophilus influenzae, brucellosis, and other infections caused by pneumococcus.
