spectinomycin

IPA: spɛktˈɪnoʊmˈaɪsɪn

(pharmacology) An aminocyclitol antibiotic produced by the bacterium Streptomyces spectabilis.

Examples of "spectinomycin" in Sentences

Broad-spectrum antibiotics, including tetracycline; an injectable drug, spectinomycin hydrochloride; and some penicillinrelated drugs such as ampicillin.
If penicillin is not effective, other drugs that can be used are cefixime, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin (which should not be given to pregnant women), and spectinomycin.
Most techniques of introducing new genes into organisms require additional selection genes, these usually confer resistance to a particular antibiotic such as spectinomycin.
In some cases, samples were resistant to a suite of other drugs, including such antibiotics as amoxicillin, streptomycin, spectinomycin, gentamicin, sulfamethoxazole and tetracycline.
For example, four of the antibiotics mentioned earlier, tetracycline, streptomycin, kanamycin, and spectinomycin, bind to a specific region of a ribosome and interfere with protein synthesis.
During the assembly of our constructs, we used two different antibiotics to select for cells that contained plasmids that contained either the spectinomycin or chloramphenicol resistance genes.
Making the infections more unusual was how resistant they were: not only to the fluoroquinolones, but also to amoxicillin, streptomycin, spectinomycin, gentamicin, sulfamethoxazole, and tetracyclines.
Critically Important antimicrobials for Human Health regarding the categorization of the antimicrobials kanamycin, neomycin and spectinomycin as 'Highly Important Antimicrobials' and streptomycin as a 'Critically Important Antimicrobial'