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Chloromycetin

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Chlo·ro·my·ce·tin  (klôr-m-stn, klr-)
A trademark used for a preparation of chloramphenicol.
Chloromycetin [ˌklɔːrəʊmaɪˈsiːtɪn]
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(Medicine / Pharmacology)™ a brand of chloramphenicol
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Noun1.Chloromycetin - an oral antibiotic (trade name Chloromycetin) used to treat serious infections (especially typhoid fever)
chloramphenicol
antibiotic, antibiotic drug - a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections; "when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs"


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and European pharmaceutical firms routinely told working or vacationing employees to collect soil samples and plants from around the world and bring them back for analysis and drug discovery Chloromycetin, for example, still the standard treatment for typhus, was discovered in a Venezuelan compost heap in 1944.
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