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tobramycin

[ toh-bruh-mahy-sin ]

noun

Pharmacology.
  1. a highly toxic aminoglycoside antibiotic, C 18 H 37 N 5 O 9 , derived from Streptomyces tenebarius, used in the treatment of serious infections due to susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms.


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Origin of tobramycin1

1970–75; perhaps (Strep)to(myces) (tene)bra(rias) + -mycin
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The involvement affected essential medicines including, pravastatin, and two other drugs - skin infection treatment clotrimazole and tobramycin, a medicine for eye infections.

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The class of drugs has provided some well-known agents, such as Neomycin, streptomycin and tobramycin, which had worked well, despite some side effects, until the bacteria they were fighting began developing resistance.

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Later we learned she had already received a dose in the E.R. — worrisome because tobramycin’s risk of harming the kidneys increases with accumulated doses.

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Another observation that the researchers made was that this biofilm is more susceptible to the antibiotic tobramycin.

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So we started her on intravenous fluids and tobramycin, a potent antibiotic with potent side effects.

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