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What exactly is streptomycin?
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Aminoglycoside: This antibiotic was one of the earliest discovered and used primarily to treat tuberculosis. It is also used to treat some very severe bacterial infections, but because it is quite toxic, its use is limited.
Answered 10/23/2017
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Streptomycin: Streptomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic that has been used to treat myobacterium avium, Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Plague, Brucellosis, Tularemia, Rat bite fever, Burkholderian infection, Chancroid, granuloma inguinale and a # of other infections.
Answered 9/9/2017
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