furazolidone


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furazolidone

(ˌfjʊrəˈzɒlɪˌdəʊn)
n
an antibiotic drug used in the treatment of diarrhoea and enteritis
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Effects of chloramphenicol, erythromycin and furazolidone on growth of Isochrysis galbana and Chaetoceros gracilis.
Antibiotics are prescribed, such tetracycline, doxycycline, cotrimoxazole, furazolidone, chloramphenicol, and erythromycin..
Cream to white, opaque Colonies on blood agar showing Gram positive cocci arranged in clusters in Grams stain smear were further subjected to additional tests such as catalase test [to differentiate from streptococci], Hugh leifson's oxidative fermentative test, susceptibility to Furazolidone 100mg disc and resistance to Bacitracin 0.04 units [to differentiate from micrococci], and coagulase test to identify coagulase positive and coagulase negative staphylococcus species.
All isolates had intermediate sensitivity to erythromycin and were resistant to furazolidone and nalidixic acid.
Gram positive cluster forming bacteria which are catalase positive, oxidase negative, bacitracin resistant, furazolidone sensitive and fermentative by the Oxidation-Fermentation (OF) test are identified as staphylococcal.
cholerae NB2 and PC2 [21, 22] and Shigella flexneri [29] included in the present study were MDR clinical isolates and these were resistant to commonly used drugs such as ampicillin, streptomycin, tetracycline, nalidixic acid, furazolidone, and cotrimoxazole.
Lai, "Analyses of enrofloxacin, furazolidone and malachite green in fish products with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy," Food Chemistry, vol.
Furazolidone has been extensively used to treat FT; this has led to development of resistance against this drug (Barrow et al., 2011).
Oxazolone and its derivatives make a prominent structure of number of well established marketed drugs such as rilmenidine, furazolidone, nifurantoin, oxaprozin, and especially linezolid, which is an active against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
After retrieving calf, the whole uterus was irrigated with normal saline and inserted with Furazolidone plus Metronidazole bolus.