Chloramphenicol

In the surgical intensive care unit where patient 9 had been sent, the hospital was conducting a drug trial of an older antibiotic called chloramphenicol. ❋ MARYN MCKENNA (2010)

The agency says the antibiotic, called chloramphenicol, is not approved for use in food, animal feed, or food-producing animals in the United States. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also, antibiotics such as chloramphenicol will inhibit the mitochondrial ribosome and the ribosomes of bacteria, but they won’t affect the function of the ribosomes in the cytosol of your cells. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In 2002, 154,000 pounds of Chinese honey contaminated with chloramphenicol, banned in Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States because it treats anthrax but is known to cause bone marrow failure through aplastic anemia -- turned up in our grocery stores, unknowingly. ❋ Dr. Reese Halter (2011)

The first problem with that is some Chinese honey is "tainted with banned antibiotics" such as ciprofloxacin and chloramphenicol. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the MRSA strain passed from patient 9 to patient 10 in an adjacent intensive-care bed, it picked up resistance to chloramphenicol as well. ❋ MARYN MCKENNA (2010)

New antibiotics followed in the footsteps of penicillin: chloramphenicol in 1947, tetracycline in 1948. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

Ampicillin and trimethoprim-sulfonamide have been used successfully in the treatment of infections caused by chloramphenicol-resistant strains. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Tetracyclines and chloramphenicol are also effective. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The compound, named Chloromycetin, or chloramphenicol, was the first of the broad-spectrum antibiotics to work against previously untreatable diseases such as typhoid, typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Examples of blood and cardiovascular toxicity are: hypoxia due to carbon monoxide binding of hemoglobin preventing transport of oxygen decrease in circulating leukocytes due to chloramphenicol damage to bone marrow cells leukemia due to benzene damage of bone marrow cells arteriosclerosis due to cholesterol accumulation in arteries and veins ❋ Unknown (2007)

The possible side effects of the antibiotic chloramphenicol - which was found in German, then British imports of Chinese honey in ❋ Unknown (2007)

There are veterinary drugs like chloramphenicol, an antibiotic, that has serious health side effects and is banned in the United States. ❋ Unknown (2007)

U.S. authorities, testing honey for anti-dumping enforcement, found Chinese honey had the antibiotic chloramphenicol, which can cause cancer. ❋ Unknown (2007)