Thursday, June 25, 2015

What is Florfenicol?



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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