Florfenicol (marketed by
Schering-Plough Animal Health beneath the barter name Nuflor) is a fluorinated
constructed analog of thiamphenicol.
In the United States,
florfenicol is currently adumbrated for the analysis of bovine respiratory ache
(BRD) associated with Mannheimia (Pasteurella) haemolytica, Pasteurella
multocida, and Haemophilus somnus, for analysis of bovine interdigital phlegmon
(foot rot, astute interdigital necrobacillosis, communicable pododermatitis)
associated with Fusobacterium necrophorum and Bacteroides melaninogenicus.
Florfenicol is aswell
acclimated in aquaculture, and is accountant for use in the United States for
the ascendancy of enteric septicemia in catfish.
The use of florfenicol in
horses, and acceptable in added equids, about causes diarrhea. This has been
anecdotally appear to advance to baleful cases of astute colitis. Therefore,
use of this antimicrobial in the equine accommodating should be bound to cases
in which other, safer, options are not available.
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