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  • noun Plural form of nitrofuran.

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  • For example, withdrawing nitrofurans from livestock use took 20 years, DES diethylstilbestrol took seven years and enrofloxacin took five years and cost $3.3 million, says the agency.

    Martha Rosenberg: Are You Eating Antibiotics Without Knowing It? Probably! Martha Rosenberg 2012

  • For example, withdrawing nitrofurans from livestock use took 20 years, DES diethylstilbestrol took seven years and enrofloxacin took five years and cost $3.3 million, says the agency.

    Martha Rosenberg: Are You Eating Antibiotics Without Knowing It? Probably! Martha Rosenberg 2012

  • The FDA found out that the Chinese farmers were giving their fish two kinds of antifungals called malachite green and gentian violet, and also two types of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones and nitrofurans.

    CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2007 2007

  • Resistance was seen to representatives of the following eleven structural classes: aminoglycocides, second, third and fourth generation cephalosporins, carbapenems, foliate pathway inhibitors, nitrofurans, phenicols, quinolones, fluoroquinolones and tetracyclines.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David W. Verner-Jeffreys et al. 2009

  • In particular, oxytetracycline, nitrofurans (e.g. furazolidone), potentiated suphonamides, and oxolinic acid, which many of the tested organisms showed high tolerance to (

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David W. Verner-Jeffreys et al. 2009

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