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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]
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.
Sep 29, 2022 · Streptomyces species have been considered as a repository of a diverse range of natural products (Azerang and Sardari, 2017; Genilloud, 2017; Lapaz et al., 2019; Xia et al., 2020) because of their powerful and complex secondary metabolism (Chang et al., 2021).
- 10.3389/fmicb.2022.968053
- 2022
- Front Microbiol. 2022; 13: 968053.
Streptomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic indicated to treat multi-drug resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis and various non-tuberculosis infections.
Aug 7, 2018 · By the mid-1950s, streptomycin sprays and solutions were used to treat and prevent bacterial plant infections while tetracycline preservatives delayed spoilage in US fish, shellfish, and poultry...
- Claas Kirchhelle
- claas.kirchhelle@wuhmo.ox.ac.uk
- 2018
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.
Selman Abraham Waksman (July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Jewish American inventor, Nobel Prize laureate, biochemist and microbiologist whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics.
