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  • noun 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.

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  • noun medicine Any of a group of amphoteric antibiotic and antifungal agents derived from Streptomyces bacteria

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  • noun an antibiotic and antifungal agent

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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.

    CHASING BLACK FEVER 2007

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

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mark Schütte et al. 2009

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

    Big Wall Street Journal Poll Contains Comfort For Both Parties 2009

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

    Sean Strub: Condomizing Jesse Helms' House 2008

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

    Sporotrichosis 2008

  • 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.

    'Complications': An Exchange Dilligan, Mary 2002

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

    'Complications': An Exchange Dilligan, Mary 2002

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

    Chapter 6 2000

  • 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

    NYT > Home Page By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. 2011

  • 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).

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

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