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    Look up streptomycin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Streptomycin is an antibiotic medication used to treat a number of bacterial infections, including...
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    decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics. A professor of biochemistry and microbiology...
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    Pen-Strep (also known as penicillin-streptomycin) is a mixture of penicillin G and streptomycin that is widely used in mammalian cell culture media to...
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    generally not against Gram-positive and anaerobic Gram-negative bacteria. Streptomycin is the first-in-class aminoglycoside antibiotic. It is derived from Streptomyces...
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  • January 2005) was an American microbiologist and academic who discovered streptomycin, the first antibiotic known to be effective for the treatment of tuberculosis...
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  • ADP + streptomycin 3"-phosphate Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are ATP and streptomycin, whereas its two products are ADP and streptomycin 3''-phosphate...
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  • ADP + streptomycin 6-phosphate Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are ATP and streptomycin, whereas its two products are ADP and streptomycin 6-phosphate...
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  • enzymology, a streptomycin 3"-adenylyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.47) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction: ATP + streptomycin ⇌ {\displaystyle...
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  • enzyme streptomycin-6-phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.39) catalyzes the reaction streptomycin 6-phosphate + H2O ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } streptomycin +...
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    The 1952 prize, awarded solely to Selman Waksman for his discovery of streptomycin, omitted the recognition some felt due to his co-discoverer Albert Schatz...
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  • 1920 – April 10, 2001) was an American biochemist who co-discovered Streptomycin, the first antibiotic against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Selman Waksman...
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    across the globe. Orwell received more streptomycin treatment and improved slightly. This repeat dose of streptomycin, especially after the side effect had...
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    inoculated. Several antibiotics are effective for treatment, including streptomycin, gentamicin, and doxycycline. Without treatment, plague results in the...
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    be producers of 32 different structural types of bioactive compounds. Streptomycin, the first antibiotic ever reported from a bacterium, comes from strains...
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    same time, represent a base for a cell structure. Antibiotics, such as streptomycin and penicillin Pigments, such as delphinidin Scents, such as ionone Plant...
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  • thousand and ninety-eight Italian prisoners of war drown with it. 1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers...
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  • Antibiotics such as tetracyclines, rifampicin, and the aminoglycosides streptomycin and gentamicin are effective against Brucella bacteria. However, the...
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    spectrum of activity compared to sulfa drugs and reduced side effects. Streptomycin, found in 1942, proved to be the first drug effective against the cause...
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    biofilms Aminoglycoside antibiotics, such as kanamycin, gentamicin, streptomycin, were once effective against staphylococcal infections until strains...
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    humans:[citation needed] Doxycycline Minocycline Aminoglycosides (except for streptomycin) Ampicillin Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (Augmentin) Azithromycin Carbapenems...
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    actinomycetales order of bacteria also produced antibiotic compounds (e.g., streptomycin). Thus the action of anaerobic bacteria ceased at about 10 m below the...
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    isoniazid is INH or H pyrazinamide is PZA or Z rifampicin is RMP or R, streptomycin is SM or S First-line anti-tuberculous drug names are often remembered...
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    it is often used together with rifampicin, pyrazinamide, and either streptomycin or ethambutol. For latent tuberculosis, it is often used alone. It may...
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    highly responsive to antibiotic therapy. The antibiotics often used are streptomycin, chloramphenicol and tetracycline. Amongst the newer generation of antibiotics...
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    of streptomycin and other antibiotics, although the disease remained a significant threat. In 1946, the development of the antibiotic streptomycin made...
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    disturbing dead animals. Treatment is typically with the antibiotic streptomycin. Gentamicin, doxycycline, or ciprofloxacin may also be used. Between...
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    Metchnikoff (discovery of Macrophage); Selman Waksman (discovery of Streptomycin); Rosalind Franklin (DNA); Carl Djerassi (the pill); Stephen Jay Gould...
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    War I and delivery of a diphtheria antitoxin to Merck & Co. In 1943, Streptomycin was discovered during a Merck-funded research program in Selman Waksman's...
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    the mass production of various antibiotics, including penicillin and streptomycin. Meanwhile, progress in polymer science in the 1950s paved way for the...
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    bacteria have displayed at least some resistance include chloramphenicol, streptomycin, kanamycin, gentamicin, tetracycline, spectinomycin and neomycin. However...
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