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UK
/stɹˈɛptəmˌɪsɪn/
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NOUN
- an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis
How To Use streptomycin In A Sentence
- Streptomycin is more stable than penicillin and so it was easier to isolate and manufacture.
- In its early stages, leptospirosis can be treated with antibiotics such as penicillin, streptomycin, tetracycline and erythromycin.
- Even the addition of a bactericidal drug streptomycin to isoniazid only resulted in a marginal increase to 49 per cent.
- Antibiotics used during vaccine manufacture include neomycin, polymyxin B, streptomycin and gentamicin. Antibiotics
- (The story of Orwell and streptomycin is worth a read, too.) Matthew Yglesias » George Orwell Was a Socialist
- The injected IPV should not be given to persons with severe allergy to neomycin, streptomycin, or polymyxin B.
- Streptomycin, kanamycin, or amikacin also can be used as the fourth drug, when necessary.
- He has isolated, together with his students and associates, a number of new antibiotics, including actinomycin (1940), clavacin, streptothricin (1942), streptomycin (1943), grisein Selman A. Waksman - Biography
- The vaccine contains lyophilized calf lymph and traces of polymyxin B, streptomycin, tetracycline, and neomycin.
- In its early stages, leptospirosis can be treated with antibiotics such as penicillin, streptomycin, tetracycline and erythromycin.