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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]
Streptomycetaceae is a family of the class Actinomycetota, making up the monotypic order Streptomycetales. It includes the important genus Streptomyces. This was the original source of many antibiotics, namely streptomycin, the first antibiotic against tuberculosis.
Jul 21, 2020 · Streptomyces are non-motile bacteria that spread by producing threadlike hyphae which penetrate surfaces in search of nutrients. When resources are limited, Streptomyces produce aerial hyphae that divide, producing spores that can resist unfavourable conditions and are easily dispersed to new environments or sources of nutrients [7].
- 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.
Streptomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic indicated to treat multi-drug resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis and various non-tuberculosis infections.
Jul 4, 2023 · Streptomycin is the first discovered aminoglycoside antibiotic, originally isolated from the bacteria Streptomyces griseus. It is now primarily used as part of the multi-drug treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. It has additional activity against several aerobic gram-negative bacteria.
- Mitchell Waters, Prasanna Tadi
- 2023/07/04
Streptomycetes produce over two-thirds of the clinically useful antibiotics of natural origin (e.g., neomycin, streptomycin, cypemycin, grisemycin, bottromycins and chloramphenicol). [9] [10] The antibiotic streptomycin takes its name directly from Streptomyces.
Sep 29, 2022 · Kasugamycin, streptomycin, and polyoxin D (Figure 8) are three purified metabolites produced by Streptomyces sp. that are used as foliar fungicides and bactericides (Rey and Dumas, 2017).
