Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An antibiotic, C23H36N12O8, produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces puniceus, used in the treatment of tuberculosis.
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- noun medicine An
antibiotic , of complex structure, derived from theactinomycete Streptomyces puniceus
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- noun a basic polypeptide antibiotic (trade name Viocin) administered intramuscularly (along with other drugs) in the treatment of tuberculosis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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After that war we found a whole arsenal of new drugs - against tuberculosis, which had really never been treated successfully before-streptomycin, PAS, isoniazid~ viomycin, and so on, right up to Bloch's isolation of the TB toxins and the development of the metabolic blocking agents.
Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957
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Antibiotic viomycin binds to TB ribosome, inhibiting the ability of the bacteria to function.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Antibiotic viomycin binds to TB ribosome, inhibiting the ability of the bacteria to function.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Antibiotic viomycin binds to TB ribosome, inhibiting the ability of the bacteria to function.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Using technology called X-ray crystallography, Steitzand his team describe where the antibiotics viomycin and capreomycin bind - at a site between the large and small subunits of the ribosome.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Using technology called X-ray crystallography, Steitzand his team describe where the antibiotics viomycin and capreomycin bind - at a site between the large and small subunits of the ribosome.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Using technology called X-ray crystallography, Steitzand his team describe where the antibiotics viomycin and capreomycin bind - at a site between the large and small subunits of the ribosome.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The structures of the anti-tuberculosis antibiotics viomycin and capreomycin bound to the 70S ribosome
Naturejobs - All Jobs Shan L He 2010
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The structures of the anti-tuberculosis antibiotics viomycin and capreomycin bound to the 70S ribosome
Naturejobs - All Jobs Deniz Simsek 2010
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