streptomycin
IPA: strɛptoʊmˈaɪsɪn
noun
- (pharmacology) An aminoglycoside and bactericidal antibiotic C₂₁H₃₉N₇O₁₂ that is produced by a soil actinomycete (Streptomyces griseus), is active against many bacteria, and is administered via intramuscular injection especially in the treatment of infections by gram-negative bacteria. It was the first drug to be successful against tuberculosis but is now chiefly used with other drugs because of its toxic side effects.
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Examples of "streptomycin" in Sentences
- Streptomycin is a protein synthesis inhibitor.
- Streptomycin treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.
- This enzyme participates in streptomycin biosynthesis.
- It is a mixture of streptomycin and dihydrostreptomycin.
- (The story of Orwell and streptomycin is worth a read, too.)
- Combined streptomycin and sulfadiazine treatmentin brucellosis.
- He was one of the first patients to be treated with streptomycin.
- Effectiveness of a streptomycin dependent strain of brucella melitensis.
- A method of making new derivatives of streptomycin by mutational biosynthesis.
- The now uncommonly used streptomycin takes its name directly from Streptomyces.
- Sprays of the antibiotics streptomycin or terramycin can prevent new infections.
- Even if streptomycin is not the perfect anti-tuberculous remedy, its introduction nevertheless signifies
- I've already mentioned the mutations that occur in streptomycin resistance and to rifampicin in mycobacteria.
- At that time, half of those who developed TB died from it, but new anti-bacterial drugs, such as streptomycin and isoniazid, were being introduced to treat the disease.
- The activity of streptomycin is principally bacteriostatic, i.e. it checks the bacterial growth and is in some degree also bacteriolytic, i.e. it destroys the tubercle bacillus.
- Most of these antibiotics, such as streptomycin and tetracycline, are derivatives of natural compounds released by microbes (often fungi or soil bacteria) to kill competitors found nearby in the environment.
- Crofton was appointed to a team formed by Britain's Medical Research Council to investigate the treatment of TB with a recently discovered antibiotic called streptomycin -- which was available in the United Kingdom in only limited quantities because of that country's impoverishment after World War II.