Sentence examples for kanamycin from inspiring English sources

Eight percent of those had "extensively drug resistant" TB, as defined by its resistance to four antibiotics: isoniazid, rifampin, ofloxacin and kanamycin.

What particularly worries opponents of GM technology, however, is that Amflora carries an extra gene that makes the potato resistant to the antibiotics neomycin and kanamycin.

Hearing loss is a known side-effect of the painful daily kanamycin injections that I took as part of my MDR-TB treatment.

An even more serious form, known as XDR-TB for extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis, does not respond to any of the fluoroquinolone class and to at least one of three second-line drugs (amikacin, capreomycin and kanamycin) that are given by injection.

XDR strains are resistant to both isoniazid and rifampicin as well as to any member of the fluoroquinolone antibiotic class of second-line drugs and to at least one of three injectable second-line drugs like amikacin, capreomycin and kanamycin.

This year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta reported a total of 347 cases worldwide in which the agency found tuberculosis bacteria resistant to all first- and second-line drugs, including isoniazid, rifampin, ethambutol, streptomycin, kanamycin and ciprofloxacin.

XDR-TB is defined as tuberculosis that is resistant to the two most important antituberculosis drugs (isoniazid and rifampin), along with two other drugs: a member of the fluoroquinolone class and at least one of three others (capreomycin, kanamycin and amikacin).