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An antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis
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streptomycin
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis
Wikipedia
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Streptomycin is an antibiotic ( antimycobacterial ) drug, the first of a class of drugs called aminoglycosides to be discovered, and it was the first effective treatment for tuberculosis . It is derived from the actinobacterium Streptomyces griseus . Streptomycin ...
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n. An aminoglycoside and bactericidal antibiotic administered via intramuscular injection.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
antibiotic drug, 1944, from Modern Latin Streptomyces , genus name of the bacterium from which the antibiotic was obtained, from strepto- "twisted" + -mycin , element used in forming names of substances obtained from fungi, from Latinized form of Greek ...
Usage examples of streptomycin.
In South Africa a strain was found to be resistant not only to penicillin, but to most of its successors, including ampicillin, streptomycin, methicillin, chloramphenicol, and tetracycline.
We have rediscovered penicillin eighteen times, streptomycin and hemomycetin three times, and have isolated several very promising antifungal and antibacterial agents.
The vaccine was basically weakened tubercle bacilli which were injected into the skin, then followed by injections of various drugs such as ethambutol, rifampicin, thiacetazone, and poyrazinamide, and sometimes streptomycin, isioniazid, and para-aminosalicylic acid.
We even tried aureomycin, in case the bacilli were resistant to streptomycin.
But in 1939 it was still very much the case: the discovery of the chemotherapeutic agents, rifampin, para-aminosalicylic acid, isoniazid and especially streptomycin, still lay far beyond a distant horizon.
At ten a second nurse, also pretty, came in, repeated the streptomycin infection, and gave him one of gamma globulin.
Streptomycin and the sulfa drugs could kill it, but she couldn't manufacture them herself, and she didn't know where the drop was.