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viomycin

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vi·o·my·cin  (v-msn)
n.
An antibiotic, C23H36N12O8, produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces puniceus, used in the treatment of tuberculosis.
[vio(let) + -mycin (from the color of the soil mold).]
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Noun1.viomycin - a basic polypeptide antibiotic (trade name Viocin) administered intramuscularly (along with other drugs) in the treatment of tuberculosis
Viocin
antibiotic, antibiotic drug - a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections; "when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs"
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Molecular analysis of cross-resistance to capreomycin, kanamycin, amikacin, and viomycin in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Worldwide emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis by Cegielski, J. Peter / Emerging Infectious Diseases
In experiments conducted by Wu and Janssen [4], removal of an untranslated leader from mRNA for the viomycin phosphotransferase (vph) gene of Streptomyces vinaceus did not prevent its heterologous translation in E.
5'-proximal AUG sequences as translation initiation signals on mRNAs ... by Jones III, Robert L. / Transactions of the Missouri Academy of Science
 
 
 
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