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oleandomycin Pharm.|ˌəʊliːændəʊˈmaɪsɪn| [f. oleand-rose, a sugar of which a residue is present in the oleandomycin molecule (f. oleandrine + -ose2) + -o + -mycin.] (The phosphate of) a macrolide, C35H61NO12, produced by a strain of the bacterium Streptomyces antibioticus, which is active against a wide range of Gram-positive bacteria and has been used in treating staphylococcal enteritis and skin infections.
1956B. A. Sobin et al. U.S. Pat. 2,757,123 31 July, This invention relates to a new and useful antibiotic called oleandomycin. 1967[see erythromycin]. 1968[see macrolide]. 1974D. Perlman in W. O. Foye Princ. Med. Chem. xxxi. 742/1 Oleandomycin, a macrolide bacterial antibiotic closely related to erythromycin, has been losing value as a therapeutic agent for infections caused by gram-positive bacteria because of high incidence of side effects. |