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Description

Furazolidone is a nitrofuran antibacterial agent. Furazolidone is also used to treat traveler's diarrhoea, cholera, and bacteremic salmonellosis. As a veterinary medicine, furazolidone has been used with some success to treat salmonids for Myxobolus cerebralis infections. Use in treating Helicobacter pylori infections has been proposed. It is also used for giardiasis (due to Giardia lamblia), though it is not a first line treatment.

Furazolidone is no longer available in the US. Though an effective antibiotic when all others fail, against extremely drug resistant infections, it has many side effects, and as with other nitrofurans generally, minimum inhibitory concentrations also produce systemic toxicity (tremors, convulsions, peripheral neuritis, gastrointestinal disturbances, depression of spermatogenesis.) Nitrofurans are recognized by FDA as mutagens/carcinogens, and can no longer be used since 1991. Copyright Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. Source: Wikipedia, Wikipedia

Basic Part Properties

Part Display Name
Furazolidone
Part Type
Component (Describes the core component or analyte measured)
Created On
2011-11-30
Construct for LOINC Short Name
Furazolidone

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Language Variants Get Info

Tag Language Translation
zh-CN Chinese (China) 呋喃唑酮
Synonyms: 痢特灵;Furazolidone;3-(5-nitrofurfurylideneamino)-2-oxazolidone; Furazolidon; Furazolidonum; Furoxone; Nifurazolidone; 3-{[(5-nitrofuran-2-yl)methylidene]amino}-1,3-oxazolidin-2-one; 3-[2-(5-nitrofuran-2-yl)ethenyl]-1,3-oxazolidin-2-one; 3-{[(1E)-(5-nitrofur
es-ES Spanish (Spain) Furazolidona
it-IT Italian (Italy) Furazolidone
tr-TR Turkish (Turkey) Furazolidon
ru-RU Russian (Russian Federation) Фуразолидон
nl-NL Dutch (Netherlands) furazolidon