kanamycin
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- noun
- /ˌkænəˈmaɪsɪn/
- Specialized
- Of note, isolates of the S 256 strain accounted for a proportion of the cases in which mutation in the promoter region of eis was associated with kanamycin resistance, but rrs was wild type.
Examples
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The fully regenerated plants on MS media containing 50 mg/ml Kanamycin were screened with gene-specific primers.
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*Additional drugs tested were streptomycin, ethambutol, pyrazinamide, kanamycin, amikacin, capreomycin, and ofloxacin. 15 patients, Argentina, 2003-2009* ...
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XDR TB patients received the same regimen until 2007, when capreomycin and para-aminosalicylic acid became available in South Africa and replaced kanamycin and ofloxacin.
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Finally, in what is something of a disconcerting development, we have learned that some Asian and Middle Eastern patient groups appear to be exquisitely sensitive to the aminoglycoside kanamycin because they have a mitochondrial RNA mutation.
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Doctors sometimes prescribe kanamycin for patients with severe bacterial infections when other antibiotics are ineffective.
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In the study, researchers found that kanamycin was effective against certain strains of bacteria resistant to other treatments.
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The healthcare team decided to use kanamycin to combat the patient's persistent infection after standard antibiotics failed.
Synonyms
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An antibiotic used to treat serious infections caused by bacteria
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kanamycin comes from the name of the soil microbe Streptomyces kanamyceticus that made the drug and the common antibiotic ending -mycin, which links to the idea of 'mushroom' because many antibiotics were first found in natural microbes. So, kanamycin is the antibiotic produced by that microbe and is used to fight serious bacterial infections.