Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A broad-spectrum antibiotic, C14H24N2O7, obtained from a species of gram-negative bacteria (Streptomyces spectabilis) or produced synthetically and used in its hydrochloride form especially in the treatment of penicillin-resistant gonorrhea.
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- noun An aminocyclitol
antibiotic produced by thebacterium Streptomyces spectabilis.
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- noun an antibiotic used to treat gonorrhea
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For example, four of the antibiotics mentioned earlier, tetracycline, streptomycin, kanamycin, and spectinomycin, bind to a specific region of a ribosome and interfere with protein synthesis.
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Broad-spectrum antibiotics, including tetracycline; an injectable drug, spectinomycin hydrochloride; and some penicillinrelated drugs such as ampicillin.
Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000
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If penicillin is not effective, other drugs that can be used are cefixime, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin (which should not be given to pregnant women), and spectinomycin.
Chapter 20 1995
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In some cases, samples were resistant to a suite of other drugs, including such antibiotics as amoxicillin, streptomycin, spectinomycin, gentamicin, sulfamethoxazole and tetracycline.
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In some cases, samples were resistant to a suite of other drugs, including such antibiotics as amoxicillin, streptomycin, spectinomycin, gentamicin, sulfamethoxazole and tetracycline.
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Making the infections more unusual was how resistant they were: not only to the fluoroquinolones, but also to amoxicillin, streptomycin, spectinomycin, gentamicin, sulfamethoxazole, and tetracyclines.
Wired Top Stories Maryn McKenna 2011
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During the assembly of our constructs, we used two different antibiotics to select for cells that contained plasmids that contained either the spectinomycin or chloramphenicol resistance genes.
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Most techniques of introducing new genes into organisms require additional selection genes, these usually confer resistance to a particular antibiotic such as spectinomycin.
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During the assembly of our constructs, we used two different antibiotics to select for cells that contained plasmids that contained either the spectinomycin or chloramphenicol resistance genes.
OpenWetWare - Recent changes [en] Kirill Shkura 2010
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Critically Important antimicrobials for Human Health regarding the categorization of the antimicrobials kanamycin, neomycin and spectinomycin as 'Highly Important Antimicrobials' and streptomycin as a 'Critically Important Antimicrobial'
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