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streptomycin
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strep·to·my·cin
/ ˌstreptəˈmīsin/
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n. Med.
an antibiotic produced by the bacterium Streptomyces griseus. 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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PFIZER BEGINS FREE DISTRIBUTION OF STREPTOMYCIN; ANTIBIOTIC HELPS COMBAT SPREAD OF MULTIPLE-DRUG-RESISTANT STRAINS OF TUBERCULOSIS
PR Newswire; 7/8/1993; 700+ words
; ...today that it has begun distributing streptomycin to physicians throughout the country...combination with other medicines, streptomycin can be used for treating the growing...in 40 percent or more of all cases. Streptomycin had been a widely used antibiotic in...
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Effect of streptomycin on the active force of bioengineered heart muscle in response to controlled stretch
Magazine article from: In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...BEHMs) and test the system when streptomycin (an aminoglycoside antibiotic, which...excluded from the culture medium. Streptomycin is a very commonly used component of...applied mechanical stretch protocol when streptomycin is present in the culture medium...
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The Discovery of Streptomycin
Magazine article from: The Scientist; 8/1/2007; ; 640 words
; ...with nutrient formulas for growing streptomycin-producing cultures. By fall 1943...Albert Schatz. Schatz soon isolated streptomycin, an aminoglycoside that inhibits protein...November 1944 and February 1945. She was streptomycin's first success against TB.2 The...
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PFIZER ANNOUNCES PLAN TO REINTRODUCE STREPTOMYCIN FOLLOWING FDA APPROVAL; NEW FORMULATION AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS DEVELOPED
PR Newswire; 5/17/1993; 700+ words
; ...reintroduction of the antibiotic streptomycin -- a key additional medicine...Drug Application (NDA) for Streptomycin Sulfate Injection USP has been...Food and Drug Administration. Streptomycin has been in critically short...
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Intermittent Streptomycin Doses May Increase Efficacy.
Newspaper article from: Drug Week; 11/9/2001; 700+ words
; ...intermittent doses of the antibiotic streptomycin can maximize its effectiveness in treating...population pharmacokinetic parameters of streptomycin after administration of multiple intramuscular...multiple intravenous or intramuscular streptomycin doses as part of their treatment...
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Health fears over resistant bacteria; STREPTOMYCIN USE
Newspaper article from: The Press; 12/10/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...tested had intermediate resistance to streptomycin, from the same family of antibiotics. Streptomycin is not used by the poultry industry...seedlings. Millar said the discovery of streptomycin resistance in the chicken indicated...
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Transferable Plasmid-Mediated Resistance to Streptomycin in a Clinical Isolate of Yersinia pestis.
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...strain with high-level resistance to streptomycin, isolated from a human case of bubonic...species. Emergence of resistance to streptomycin in Y. pestis represents a critical...attributable to inadequate surveillance. Streptomycin, chloramphenicol, and tetracycline...
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PFIZER ANNOUNCES SUPPLEMENTAL NDA FOR STREPTOMYCIN IN RESPONSE TO TUBERCULOSIS CRISIS
PR Newswire; 10/14/1992; 700+ words
; ...PFIZER ANNOUNCES SUPPLEMENTAL NDA FOR STREPTOMYCIN IN RESPONSE TO TUBERCULOSIS CRISIS...the Food and Drug Administration for streptomycin in order to provide future critical...being held in Anaheim, California. Streptomycin is critically needed as an alternate...
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BIGGEST STREPTOMYCIN PLANT SET UP IN SHIJIAZHUANG
News Wire article from: AsiaInfo Services; 9/18/1997; 238 words
; ...AsiaInfo Services 09-18-1997 Biggest Streptomycin Plant Set up in Shijiazhuang SHIJIAZHUANG...Pharmacy Huasheng Co Ltd, the largest streptomycin producer in the world, was recently...Ltd, whose major product-sulfuric streptomycin is an international big name. The...
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Data from Uppsala University provide new insights into streptomycin therapy.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 12/9/2009; 700+ words
; ...investigators in Uppsala, Sweden report (see also Streptomycin Therapy). "The streptomycin resistance (Str[R]) mutations K42N and...their study in Genetics (The Fitness Cost of Streptomycin Resistance Depends on rpsL Mutation, Carbon...
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Streptomycin
Book article from: Medical Discoveries
Streptomycin The discovery of streptomycin by microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman (1888-1973...antibiotic led to the taming of tuberculosis, or "TB." Streptomycin has also been found effective in treating several other infectious...
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streptomycin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
streptomycin , antibiotic produced by soil bacteria...Waksman and Albert Schatz in 1947, streptomycin is effective against tubercle bacilli...mainstay of tuberculosis therapy. Because streptomycin-resistant tubercle bacilli emerge...
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Waksman, Selman A. 1888-1973
Book article from: American Decades
...SELMAN A. 1888-1973 The discoverer of streptomycin Painstaking Research Sometimes medical...years to unearth the new antibiotic, streptomycin, which comes from the soil. Their...1943 Waksman and his staff isolated streptomycin. It appeared to affect tuberculosis...
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The Wonder Drugs: "Magic Bullets" Against Disease
Book article from: American Decades
...case with some antibiotics, such as streptomycin. Long years of experimentation and...antibiotics—penicillin, streptomycin, and isoniazid—further...enough penicillin for civilian needs. Streptomycin In the mid 1940s Selman A. Waksman...
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Waksman, Selman Abraham
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
...and in the process discovered streptomycin , the first antibiotic effective...tuberculosis. For his discovery of streptomycin, Waksman received the 1952...microbes before they isolated streptomycin in 1943. Streptomycin was...
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