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n. - Aerobic bacteria (some of which produce the antibiotic which is named for them).

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Usage examples (5)
  • The grain used to make the fermented gruel contained the soil bacteria streptomyces, which produces tetracycline.
  • In fact, the bacteria discovered by UA comes from a bacterium group, streptomyces, that produces about 70 percent of antibiotics.
  • And several other groups have focused on antibiotic properties of streptomyces, a marine bacterium effective against MRSA and three examples.
  • Individually, lankacidin and lankamycin, two antibiotics produced naturally by the microbe streptomyces, are marginally effective in warding off pathogens.
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