Chloramphenicol Injection

Name: Chloramphenicol Injection Drug Interactions
Creator: Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS

30 interactions 316 cited references

Also sold as: Chloromycetin® Injection Mychel-S® Injection Viceton

About Chloramphenicol Injection

Chloramphenicol injection is used to treat certain types of serious infections caused by bacteria when other antibiotics cannot be used. Chloramphenicol injection is in a class of medications called antibiotics. It works by stopping the growth of bacteria.. Antibiotics such as chloramphenicol injection will not work fo… Read the full Chloramphenicol Injection drug information page →

Medically reviewed by Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS · Updated Aug 9, 2026 · Editorial policy · Data sources

Sources: FDA prescribing information (Structured Product Labeling), the published literature cited in each entry, DDInter 2.0 (a major open-access drug-interaction database), and legacy DrugBank interaction data distributed by the NIH's RxNav service (decommissioned in 2024) — analyzed and reviewed by our pharmacist team. How we build this library →

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8 Major 17 Moderate 5 Minor

All (30) Major (8) Moderate (17) Minor (5)

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