History (discovery) of chloramphenicol
In 1947, a natural antibiotic was obtained from a culture of the fungus Streptomyces venezuelae called chloramphenicol.
Currently, by chemical synthesis an identical preparation of levomycetin was obtained.
Its other names are chloromycetin, chlorocide and others.
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