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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics, such as streptomycin, derived from species of Streptomyces or Micromonospora bacteria and used to treat infections caused by gram-negative bacteria.

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  • noun A molecule composed of a sugar group and an amino group, in some cases functioning as an antibiotic.

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Examples

  • In the present study, we describe a new blaIMP-1-carrying integron that contains a new aminoglycoside resistance gene and its dissemination among genetically unrelated clinical isolates recovered from a Brazilian hospital.

    Behe's Test, Take 2 2008

  • Do not use this drug if you are allergic to other antibiotics of the aminoglycoside family.

    Chapter 37 1997

  • Gentamicin is a very strong antibiotic of the aminoglycoside family that is used to treat gonorrhea, kidney and other serious infections, and for pelvic inflammatory disease in combination with other drugs.

    Chapter 37 1997

  • Do not use this drug if you are allergic to other antibiotics of the aminoglycoside family.

    Chapter 37 1997

  • Kanamycin is a very strong antibiotic of the aminoglycoside family that is used to treat gonorrhea and other serious infections.

    Chapter 37 1997

  • People with allergies to antibiotics of the aminoglycoside family like gentamicin should not take this drug.

    Chapter 37 1997

  • Streptomycin is an antibiotic of the aminoglycoside family used to treat tuberculosis (TB).

    Chapter 37 1997

  • - Combination with aminoglycoside (e.g. gentamicin) is sometimes necessary (need medical advice).

    Chapter 4 1993

  • Time after time, if this is also the osmolarity, intracellular boiling is digested during the other visitors of aminoglycoside and impaired as essential also human.

    Wii-volution 2010

  • ANTIBIOTICS IN SEPSIS 2 Monotherapy with carbapenem antibiotics = β-lactam and an aminoglycoside (Netspan) Extended spectrum carboxypenicillins or ureidopenicillins combined with beta lactamase inhibitors (Tazact) have been shown to be effective for the treatment of suspected infections in febrile, neutropenic cancer patients and in patients with peritonitis or nosocomial pneumonia.

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