PRODUCTION OF SPECTINOMYCIN BY A NEW SUBSPECIES OF STREPTOMYCES HYGROSCOPICUS

Abstract

In the course of screening for new antibiotics, spectinomycin (abbreviated as SPM)-like activity was discovered. The producing culture, strain No. MK43 was unlike the known SPM-producers, Streptomyces spectabilis¹⁾ and S. flavopersicus²⁾. Since SPM has recently become more important for the treatment of disease such as gonorrhea³⁾, identification of the products and the organism was carried out.