kanamycin

IPA: kʌnˈɔmˈaɪsɪn

(pharmacology) A broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic from a Japanese soil streptomyces (Streptomyces kanamyceticus), used to treat severe bacterial infections and tuberculosis.

Examples of "kanamycin" in Sentences

If the new seeds are resistant to kanamycin, scientists know the engineering process worked.
So they attach a marker gene to it -- in this case a marker gene resistant to the antibiotic kanamycin.
Over the years they came up with a string of alternatives, including neomycin, kanamycin, gentamicin and tobramycin.
Again, I respond with a nice email explaining that no, there is no way that ampicillin-resistant strain is also resistant to kanamycin.
Researchers found that more than 99% of persisters were killed when sugar was added to a class of antibiotics known as aminoglycosides, which includes gentamicin and kanamycin.
But environmentalists and some scientists worry that a gene in the potato that confers resistance to kanamycin and neomycin, two important antibiotics, could breed bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotic.
An independent studyby French scientist Gilles-Eric Seralini released in January 2009 has strengthened their claims, finding thatBtbrinjalproduces a protein that could induce resistance to the widely-used antibiotic kanamycin.