Florfenicol is mainly used to treat a variety of animal diseases, including a variety of bacterial infections in livestock and poultry12-florfenicol is a broad-spectrum antimicrobial drug used to treat a variety of bacterial infections in livestock and poultry. In livestock, it can be used to treat symptoms such as dyspnea, increased body temperature, cough and other symptoms caused by asthma, infectious pleuropneumonia, atrophic rhinitis, porcine lung disease, streptococcal disease, etc. in pigs. In poultry, florfenicol can treat symptoms such as cholera, chick dysentery, diarrhea, and intractable diarrhea caused by Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Pasteurella, etc. In addition, florfenicol can be used to treat respiratory diseases in cattle, mastitis in dairy cows, and eel Edwards and redfin disease in aquaculture.
The chemical properties of florfenicol are white or off-white crystalline powder, odorless, very slightly soluble in water, slightly soluble in glacial acetic acid, soluble in methanol and ethanol. Its mechanism of action is to achieve antibacterial effect by inhibiting the synthesis of bacterial proteins, and the blood concentration in animals is high, the half-life is long, and it can be maintained for 48 hours.