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Streptomycin. Look up streptomycin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Streptomycin is an antibiotic medication used to treat a number of bacterial infections, [3] including tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium complex, endocarditis, brucellosis, Burkholderia infection, plague, tularemia, and rat bite fever. [3]
Streptomycin adalah salah satu contoh antibiotik terkenal yang berasal dari Streptomyces. Antibiotik primer tersebut dapat diaplikasikan pada manusia (sebagai obat antikanker, immunoregulator) atau digunakan sebagai herbisida, agen anti-parasit, dan penghasil beberapa enzim penting untuk industri makanan dan industri lainnya.
Jul 4, 2023 · Streptomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic originally isolated from the bacteria Streptomyces griseus. It is the first discovered aminoglycoside antibiotic. Its use is primarily treating aerobic gram-negative bacterial infections, such as brucellosis, tularemia, plague ( Y. pestis ), tuberculosis (in combination with isoniazid, pyrazinamide ...
- Mitchell Waters, Prasanna Tadi
- 2023/07/04
Jul 21, 2020 · Abstract. Given the increased reporting of multi-resistant bacteria and the shortage of newly approved medicines, researchers have been looking towards extreme and unusual environments as a new source of antibiotics. Streptomyces currently provides many of the world’s clinical antibiotics, so it comes as no surprise that these bacteria have ...
- Gerry A. Quinn, Aiya M. Banat, Alyaa M. Abdelhameed, Ibrahim M. Banat
- 10.1099/jmm.0.001232
- 2020
- J Med Microbiol. 2020 Aug; 69(8): 1040-1048.
An antibiotic is a type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria. It is the most important type of antibacterial agent for fighting bacterial infections, and antibiotic medications are widely used in the treatment and prevention of such infections. [1] [2] They may either kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria.
Streptomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic indicated to treat multi-drug resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis and various non-tuberculosis infections. Generic Name. Streptomycin. DrugBank Accession Number. DB01082. Background.
streptomycin, antibiotic synthesized by the soil organism Streptomyces griseus. Streptomycin was discovered by American biochemists Selman Waksman, Albert Schatz, and Elizabeth Bugie in 1943. The drug acts by interfering with the ability of a microorganism to synthesize certain vital proteins. It was the first antimicrobial agent developed ...
