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Wiktionary

  1. n. medicine Any of a group of amphoteric antibiotic and antifungal agents derived from Streptomyces bacteria

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. an antibiotic and antifungal agent (C47H73NO17), produced by a strain of Streptomyces nodosus. It is one of a class of polyene macrolide antibiotics effective against fungal infections. It has a molecular weight of 924.11; it is soluble in oganic solvents but only slightly soluble in water.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an antibiotic and antifungal agent

Examples

  • “As antimony lost its punch, Bihar's best doctors turned to an antifungal medicine called amphotericin B, or Fungizone -- the $200 cure that Jha and Sundar still use in their clinics.”

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  • “[8], despite the availability of potent drugs such as amphotericin B, azole derivatives or echinocandins”

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  • “These mechanisms therefore highly enalapril and kidney disease days of fluconazole less toxic than amphotericin b process.”

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  • “Or if I'm taking amphotericin B, it could cause me to shake like crazy.”

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  • “For patients with severe disease, and/or pulmonary, central nervous system or disseminated infection, a lipid formulation of amphotericin B should be used initially.”

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  • “Even the etiology of amphotericin toxicity was vehemently disputed by these nephrologists; my husband's renal disease was considered to be a result of his diabetes, in spite of his history and a kidney biopsy.”

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  • “Several months later the surgeon removed the neck stabilization plate and an abscess, a pocket of infection that required the use of IV amphotericin.”

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  • “The main alternative drugs include pentamidine, amphotericin B and amphotericin B encapsulated in liposomes.”

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  • “In the last decade, with funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other sources, scientists have experimented with other drug combinations, including amphotericin B, a fungicide derived from bacteria, and miltefosine, which was developed in the 1980s to treat”

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  • “Methods In this open-label study, we randomly assigned 412 patients in a 3: 1 ratio to receive either liposomal amphotericin B (liposomal-therapy group) or amphotericin B deoxycholate (conventional-therapy group).”

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