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bacitracin

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-000608

A complex of cyclic peptide antibiotics produced by the Tracy-I strain of Bacillus subtilis. The commercial preparation is a mixture of at least nine bacitracins with bacitracin A as the major constituent. It is used topically to treat open infections such as infected eczema and infected dermal ulcers.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-000608
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectResearch, Technology, Methods
ReferencesMedical Subject Headings 2011; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsopeptide antibiotics; cyclic peptides
TranslationsSpanish: bacitracina
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-000608",
  "term": "bacitracin",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "A complex of cyclic peptide antibiotics produced by the Tracy-I strain of Bacillus subtilis. The commercial preparation is a mixture of at least nine bacitracins with bacitracin A as the major constituent. It is used topically to treat open infections such as infected eczema and infected dermal ulcers.",
  "subject": "Research, Technology, Methods",
  "see_also": [
    "peptide antibiotics",
    "cyclic peptides"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings 2011",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "bacitracina"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/bacitracin/"
}

Record 608 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.