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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- antibiotic drug, 1944, from Mod.L. Streptomyces, genus name of the soil bacterium from which the antibiotic was obtained, from Gk. streptos "twisted" + -mycin, element used in forming names of substances obtained from fungi, from Latinized form of Gk. mykes "fungus" (see mucus). First isolated by U.S. microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman (1888-1973) and others.
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