Streptomycin

/stɹˈɛptəmˌɪsɪn/

Streptomycin

an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis

Examples

1. Everyone had developed drug resistance to streptomycin.

2. Streptomycin comes from Streptomyces, another mold.

3. We tried streptomycin.

4. Then in 1943, Selman Waksman discovered streptomycin to be the first effective treatment of TB.