How to Use streptomycin in a Sentence
streptomycin
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And mark the calendar to spray the plants with agricultural streptomycin during peak bloom season next time around.
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Neil Sperry,
star-telegram.com,
6 May 2017
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In humans, the drugs, oxytetracycline and streptomycin, are used to treat pneumonia, syphilis and a broad array of infections.
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Andrew Jacobs,
New York Times,
16 Aug. 2019
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Today, streptomycin has been replaced with more effective antibiotics.
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Melanie Burney,
Philly.com,
14 June 2017
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However, a strain of bubonic plague with high-level resistance to streptomycin was seen recently in Madagascar.
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Susan Scutti,
CNN,
19 Aug. 2020
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For example, streptomycin, which has been used to treat tuberculosis and plague, is produced by the bacterium Streptomyces griseus.
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Sarah Kaplan,
ajc,
13 Feb. 2018
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Common antibiotics, such as streptomycin, can prevent complications or in some cases death, if administered soon after symptoms present themselves.
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Sophie Lewis,
CBS News,
20 Aug. 2020
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The sacrifice made by the 52 people in the control group meant that there was no doubt the streptomycin worked _ and that a situation like gold treatment, where many patients get a therapy that harms, instead of helping, wouldn’t repeat itself.
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Matthew Herper,
STAT,
22 Mar. 2020
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Many natural products have already been extracted from them, including the antibiotic streptomycin, an essential medicine discovered in the 1940s.
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Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
26 June 2026
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