What is "kasugamycin"

n. (context medicine English) An aminoglycoside antibiotic, originally isolated from ''Streptomyces kasugaensis''

Kasugamycin (Ksg) is an aminoglycoside antibiotic that was originally isolated in 1965, from Streptomyces kasugaensis, a Streptomyces strain found near the Kasuga shrine in Nara, Japan. Kasugamycin was discovered by Hamao Umezawa, who also discovered kanamycin and bleomycin, as a drug which could prevent growth of a fungus causing rice blast disease. It was later found to inhibit bacterial growth also. It exists as a white, crystalline substance with the chemical formula CHClNO (kasugamycin hydrochloride). It is also known as kasumin.