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tobramycin

tobramycin

1 9.2
A medicine that kills bacteria and treats serious infections, often in the lungs
  • noun
  • /ˌtoʊbrəˈmaɪsɪn/
  • Specialized
: tobramicina
  • One reason that tobramycin/dexamethasone is so attractive is that it's a microsuspension rather than a macrosuspension.
  • tobramycin/dexamethasone

Examples

  • The addition of dexamethasone also increased the rates of clinical response to both ciprofloxacin (from 80% to 90%) and tobramycin (from 70% to 75%), although these improvements were not statistically significant.

    Academic text (2003)
  • They found that dexamethasone exerted a significant protective effect against tobramycin, as determined by the time to cell death and the change in cell length.

    Academic text (2005)
  • For example, sensitivity to tobramycin has been identified in countries that have no approved tobramycin-containing topical preparations.

    Academic text (2001)
  • For example, sensitivity to tobramycin has been identified in countries that have no approved tobramycin-containing topical preparations.

    Academic text (2001)
  • The sensitivity of P. aeruginosa to ciprofloxacin and tobramycin was 94% and 71%, respectively.

    Academic text (2004)
  • An interesting finding was that although the tobramycin-only group experienced a longer duration of otorrhea than did the combination groups, no P. aeruginosa was present in the discharge.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Three years later, Fradis et al. reported the findings of their placebo-controlled study of topical ciprofloxacin and topical tobramycin.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Concerns about ototoxicity led to a decline in the use of eardrops (i.e., neomycin, gentamicin, and tobramycin).

    Academic text (2002)
  • The newest tobramycin solution for inhalation (TOBI) kills a type of bacterium that often infects the lungs of CF patients.

  • Okay, we’re going to give you voriconazole, ceftazidime, and tobramycin.

Synonyms

Nebcin
vstobramycin
  • Specialized
1 8.7

An antibiotic medicine given by injection to treat serious infections from certain bacteria

is the generic drug name for the same antibiotic rather than a brand

Surface Forms

tobramycin singular
tobramycins plural

Etymology

Tobramycin is built from tobra- plus the common antibiotic ending -mycin, and -mycin comes from a root meaning 'fungus' because many of these drugs were first found in fungus-like microbes. So, when you see -mycin you can remember tobramycin is the name of an antibiotic used to fight bacterial infections.