1-(2-Hydroxyethyl)-2-hydroxymethyl-5-nitroimidazole

개요Hydroxy metronidazole is a metabolite of metronidazole. Metronidazole belongs to the nitroimidazole class of drugs. In agricultural production, it is often used as a drug to expel parasites in animals. After being added to animal feed, metronidazole remains in eggs. Because metronidazole has a variety of toxic and side effects on the human body, especially its potential carcinogenicity and hereditary mutation effects, and metronidazole can be rapidly distributed throughout the body after entering the human body, so the residual metronidazole and its metabolites in eggs inspection is necessary.

용도Hydroxymetronidazole (Metronidazole-OH) is a metabolite of Metronidazole belonging to the class of nitroimidazoles. Hydroxymetronidazole can be used for the research of certain bacterial and protozoal diseases in poultry, swine dysentery and genital trichomoniasis in cattle.