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Answer for the clue "A yellow crystalline antibiotic (trade name Aureomycin) used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases ", 10 letters:
aureomycin

Word definitions for aureomycin in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
chlortetracycline \chlortetracycline\ n. a yellow crystalline antibacterial antibiotic used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases. Aureomycin is one common trademark for chlortetracycline. Syn: Aureomycin.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) The drug chlortetracycline, obtained from ''Streptomyces aureofaciens'' bacteria.

Usage examples of aureomycin.

We even tried aureomycin, in case the bacilli were resistant to streptomycin.

Now many cases yield to intensive therapy with aureomycin, terramycin and some of the newer molds.

He was less familiar with Aureomycin and Terramycin, but he thought that antibiotics were easy to figure out.

For the first time in three years neat tubes of aureomycin ointment for udder sores were neatly stacked in the old space on the shelf.

We even tried aureomycin, in case the bacilli were resistant to streptomycin.

During the next month he tried aureomycin, bacitracin, stannous flouride, hexylresorcinol, cortisone, penicillin, hexachlorophene, shark-liver extract, and 7,312 assorted other miracles of modern medical science, all to no avail.