"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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