Pristinamycin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An antibiotic used primarily in the treatment of staphylococcal infections, and to a lesser extent streptococcal infections.

Etymology

From [Term?] + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).

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