Article: Incompatibility of gentamycin and chloramphenicol invitro and invivo study.(Article)

Byline: K. Anandakannan, E. Selvam, K. Thiruneelakandan, T. Sundaravelu, S. Mahadevan

Gentamycin, a bactericidal antibiotic is being used extensively in combination with chloram-phenicol-a bacterio static antibiotic in severe ocular diseases like corneal ulcers, post-operative ocular infections etc. This combina-tion is prefered by many ophthalmologists since these two antibiotics have better penetra-tion into the blood aqueous barrier and are more specific against Pseudomonas and Staphylococcal infections. The use of combina-tion of these two antibiotics is a controversial subject. A study was undertaken to determine the efficacy of these commonly used ...

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