Sunday, December 29, 2013

What is chlortetracycline?


Aureomycin, also known as "chlortetracycline," was the first discovered tetracycline class of antibiotics. Dr Benjamin in 1945 featured from the university of Missouri SangBo plots collected soil samples isolated from Streptomyces golden (Streptomyces aureofaciens), named "aureomycin".
Antibacterial wide range, for a variety of bacteria, some patients, mycoplasma, helix and parasite inhibition; Mainly used for bacterial infections resistant to penicillin, such as pneumonia and staphylococcus aureus sepsis, typhus, mycoplasma pneumonia, amebic dysentery, etc.
Easy to cause the gastrointestinal tract after oral effects such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, etc.; And chlortetracycline and broad spectrum antibiotic use in a long time, because of the sensitive bacteria are destroyed, cause not sensitive bacteria or fungi blooms, which can lead to staphylococcus aureus, candida double infection, etc.
Aureomycin can combine with tRNA, so as to achieve the effect of bacteriostasis. Often used as a veterinary drug used to treat conjunctivitis.


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