How to Use streptomycin in a Sentence

streptomycin

noun

• The results were clear: 7% of those who received streptomycin died, compared to 27% of those in the control group.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 22 Mar. 2020
• And mark the calendar to spray the plants with agricultural streptomycin during peak bloom season next time around.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram.com, 6 May 2017
• In humans, the drugs, oxytetracycline and streptomycin, are used to treat pneumonia, syphilis and a broad array of infections.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• 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.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 22 Mar. 2020
• For example, streptomycin, which has been used to treat tuberculosis and plague, is produced by the bacterium Streptomyces griseus.
  — Sarah Kaplan, ajc, 13 Feb. 2018
• However, a strain of bubonic plague with high-level resistance to streptomycin was seen recently in Madagascar.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 19 Aug. 2020
• Today, streptomycin has been replaced with more effective antibiotics.
  — Melanie Burney, Philly.com, 14 June 2017
• Common antibiotics, such as streptomycin, can prevent complications or in some cases death, if administered soon after symptoms present themselves.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024