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Like Chloromycetin, it deals with many of the rickettsias.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chloramphenicol plugged a big gap in the antibiotic field: it proved particularly deadly against the rickettsias, untouched by either penicillin or streptomycin.

From Time Magazine Archive