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- noun A
glycopeptide antibiotic , produced by Streptomyces candidus, that is used to treat farmanimals
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Antibiotics, such as avoparcin (a vancomycin analogue), and probiotics, such as
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Franck Thuny et al. 2010
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Antibiotics, such as avoparcin (a vancomycin analogue), and probiotics, such as
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Franck Thuny et al. 2010
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Antibiotics, such as avoparcin (a vancomycin analogue), and probiotics, such as
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Franck Thuny et al. 2010
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Antibiotics, such as avoparcin (a vancomycin analogue), and probiotics, such as
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Franck Thuny et al. 2010
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In Europe, a scare mongering campaign by Roche, who makes avoparcin, actually delayed the GPA ban with predictions of mass bankruptcies of farmers and industry disaster.
Kennedy Antibiotic Bill Meets "Resistance" from Big Pharma 2007
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Indeed, vancomycin is an analogue of avoparcin, and
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Franck Thuny et al. 2010
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Dyer IA, Koes RM, Herlugson ML, Ojikutu LB, Preston RL, et al. (1980) Effect of avoparcin and monensin on performance of finishing heifers.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Franck Thuny et al. 2010
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These well known data concerning the impact of avoparcin and Lactobacillus sp on WG in animals and humans may explain the results found with vancomycin in the present study.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Franck Thuny et al. 2010
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Indeed, avoparcin, a glycopeptide structurally related to vancomycin, was widely used in Europe as a growth promoter from the early 1970s until a recent ban due to the emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Franck Thuny et al. 2010
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These well known data concerning the impact of avoparcin and Lactobacillus sp on WG in animals and humans may explain the results found with vancomycin in the present study.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Franck Thuny et al. 2010
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