Antibiotic
Streptomycin
An aminoglycoside antibiotic derived from Streptomyces griseus with antibacterial activity. Streptomycin irreversibly binds to the 16S rRNA and S12 protein within the bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit. As a result, this agent interferes with the assembly of initiation complex between mRNA and the...
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Effect:
Decreased Protein Synthesis
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Group:
Aminoglycosides
Mechanism:
Protein Synthesis Inhibitors
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Streptomycin, antibiotic synthesized by the soil organism Streptomyces griseus. Streptomycin was discovered by American biochemists Selman Waksman, Albert Schatz, and Elizabeth Bugie in 1943....
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Streptomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic derived from Streptomyces griseus with antibacterial activity. Streptomycin irreversibly binds to the 16S rRNA and ...
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Jun 13, 2005 ... Streptomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic indicated to treat multi-drug resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis and various non-tuberculosis ...
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Streptomycin belongs to a class of drugs known as aminoglycoside antibiotics. It works by killing the organisms that cause the infection.This drug may also be ...
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Jun 11, 2021 ... Streptomycin resistance was the most frequent resistance in the cohort accounting for 82.7% (n = 67) of the resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...
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Apr 11, 2006 ... The combination of doxycycline with streptomycin is accepted to be the most effective regimen in spinal brucellosis [1]. However, therapeutic ...
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Streptomycin has been shown to be effective in vitro1 against various gram-negative bacilli frequently responsible for urinary infections which prove ...
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Jan 26, 2022 ... Incorrect.Increases in the doses of insulin are necessary for the management of the patient's uncontrolled diabetes but not sufficient at ...
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It has been shown that Hemophilus pertussis, the etiologic agent of whooping cough, is sensitive to streptomycin in concentrations of from 1 to 3 micrograms in ...
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Sep 21, 2020 ... Similar to other aminoglycoside antibiotics, streptomycin is poorly excreted into breastmilk. Newborn infants apparently absorb small ...
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Feb 1, 2022 ... No information is available on the relationship of age to the effects of streptomycin injection in geriatric patients. However, elderly patients ...