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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2000, p. 2664-2667, Vol. 66, No. 6
Division of
Microbiology1 and Division of
Chemistry,2 National Center for Toxicological
Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas
72079
Received 14 December 1999/Accepted 21 March 2000
Enrofloxacin metabolism by Mucor ramannianus was
investigated as a model for the biotransformation of veterinary
fluoroquinolones. Cultures grown in sucrose-peptone broth were dosed
with enrofloxacin. After 21 days, 22% of the enrofloxacin remained.
Three metabolites were identified: enrofloxacin N-oxide
(62% of the total absorbance), N-acetylciprofloxacin
(8.0%), and desethylene-enrofloxacin (3.5%).
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Microbiological Transformation of Enrofloxacin by
the Fungus Mucor ramannianus
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of
Microbiology, National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR 72079-9502. Phone: (870) 543-7059. Fax: (870) 543-7307. E-mail: jsutherland{at}nctr.fda.gov.
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