achromycinn.

1952 J. N. Porter et al. in Antibiotics & Chemotherapy 2 409 A new species of actinomycete, Streptomyces albo-niger, was obtained which was capable of producing a hitherto undescribed antibiotic... Because the antibiotic is devoid of pigment in the crystalline state, it has been given the name Achromycin.

1953 Amer. Jrnl. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 2 265 The in vitro effect of Achromycin on T[rypanosoma] cruzi is trypanostatic rather than trypanocidal.

1957 Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 51 183 Stylomycin, an antibiotic previously known as achromycin or puromycin and prepared by the Lederle Laboratories Division of the American Cyanamid Company, has been shown to be of some effect in the treatment of trypanosomiases.

1952 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 23 Sept. 922/2 Achromycin. For antibiotic.

1954 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 16 613/1 In our experience achromycin was therapeutically equal to aureomycin.

1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xiv. 145 Tetracycline (achromycin),..and Neomycin are ‘broad-spectrum’ antibiotics with a considerable antibacterial action.

1981 Proc. National Acad. Sci. India B. 51 38 Achromycin and aureofungin enhanced seed germination of black mustard only at 1 ppm, other concentrations being inhibitory.

1994 Homemaker's Mag. (Toronto) Mar. 106 Antibiotics: Tetracycline (Tetracyn, Apo-tetra, Achromycin) Ciprofloxacin (Cipro).