Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A water-soluble broad-spectrum antibiotic, C18H36O11N4, obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces kanamyceticus.
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- noun An
aminoglycoside antibiotic marketed under the trade name Kantrex.
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- noun antibiotic (trade name Kantrex) used to treat severe infections
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Researchers found that more than 99% of persisters were killed when sugar was added to a class of antibiotics known as aminoglycosides, which includes gentamicin and kanamycin.
Years of Sitting on the Job Linked to Cancer Ann Lukits 2011
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Researchers found that more than 99% of persisters were killed when sugar was added to a class of antibiotics known as aminoglycosides, which includes gentamicin and kanamycin.
Years of Sitting on the Job Linked to Cancer Ann Lukits 2011
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Researchers found that more than 99% of persisters were killed when sugar was added to a class of antibiotics known as aminoglycosides, which includes gentamicin and kanamycin.
Years of Sitting on the Job Linked to Cancer Ann Lukits 2011
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But environmentalists and some scientists worry that a gene in the potato that confers resistance to kanamycin and neomycin, two important antibiotics, could breed bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotic.
EU Nations Get More Leeway on Modified Crops Matthew Dalton 2010
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An independent studyby French scientist Gilles-Eric Seralini released in January 2009 has strengthened their claims, finding thatBtbrinjalproduces a protein that could induce resistance to the widely-used antibiotic kanamycin.
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Again, I respond with a nice email explaining that no, there is no way that ampicillin-resistant strain is also resistant to kanamycin.
Archive 2009-02-01 microbiologist xx 2009
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Again, I respond with a nice email explaining that no, there is no way that ampicillin-resistant strain is also resistant to kanamycin.
Is there really no such thing as a stupid question? microbiologist xx 2009
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So they attach a marker gene to it -- in this case a marker gene resistant to the antibiotic kanamycin.
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If the new seeds are resistant to kanamycin, scientists know the engineering process worked.
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Over the years they came up with a string of alternatives, including neomycin, kanamycin, gentamicin and tobramycin.
Antibiotics 2008
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