Please note, this OEL/ADE monograph also applies to gentamicin sulfate (CAS RN 1405-41-0). Gentamicin is an aminoglycoside antibacterial used, often with other antibacterials, to treat severe systemic infections due to sensitive gram-negative and other organisms. Such infections include abscesses, biliary-tract infections (acute cholecystitis or cholangitis) , brucellosis, cat scratch disease, cystic fibrosis, endocarditis (in the treatment and prophylaxis of endocarditis due to streptococci, enterococci, or staphylococci), endometritis, gastroenteritis, granuloma inguinale, listeriosis, meningitis, otitis externa, otitis media, pelvic inflammatory disease, peritonitis, plague, pneumonia, septicemia, skin infections such as in burns or ulcers (given systemically for pseudomonal and other gram-negative infections), trench fever, tularemia, arid urinary tract infections (acute pyelonephritis) , as well as in the prophylaxis of surgical infection and the treatment of immunocompromised patients and those in intensive care. It may be used as part of a multidrug regimen for the treatment of inhalation and gastrointestinal (GI) anthrax. Gentamicin is also applied topically for localized infections.
Affygility Solutions has an occupational exposure limit (OEL) and control band assignment for this active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). This monograph also contains the acceptable daily exposure (ADE) value.
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