nifuroxazide

CHEBI:135136 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

Nifuroxazide is an oral nitrofuran antibiotic used to treat colitis and diarrhea in humans and non-humans. It has recently been explored to be repurposed for parasitic diseases. — PMID:37409934

Machine-generated and unreviewed. Identity, structure and cross-references come straight from ChEBI's and CARD's own data; no curator has signed off on this record yet.

Classification

nitrofuran antibioticARO:3004116

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

nitrofuran antibiotic ARO:3004116

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C12H9N3O5
Charge	0
Average mass	275.22 Da
Monoisotopic mass	275.05422 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	YCWSUKQGVSGXJO-NTUHNPAUSA-N

SMILES

O=C(N/N=C/c1ccc([N+](=O)[O-])o1)c1ccc(O)cc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C12H9N3O5/c16-9-3-1-8(2-4-9)12(17)14-13-7-10-5-6-11(20-10)15(18)19/h1-7,16H,(H,14,17)/b13-7+

Cross-references

Identifiers for this same structure in other resources. An accession that lands on two different structures in this corpus is withheld from both rather than shown here, since it names at most one of them.

Source concepts

Every upstream concept that resolved to this record. The merge is the product: this is what shows ChEBI and CARD are describing the same structure.

Upstream concepts merged into this record
Source	Native ID	Label	Minted CURIE	Version
ARO	`ARO:3007655`	nifuroxazide	`antibioticmech:aro-fe3a5b4b1b`	2026-08-30

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (ARO)
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories

Provenance

Seeded by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record (YAML).

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