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  1. Antibiotic drug discovered in 1944, used to
  2. treat tuberculosis, influenzal meningitis,
  3. and other infections, some of which are
  4. unaffected by penicillin. Streptomycin is
  5. derived from a soil bacterium (Streptomyces
  6. griseus) or synthesized.
  7.