You don't use Streptomycin to treat a staph infection.
Not anymore!
Streptomycin was once effective against staph infections until strains of the bacteria EVOLVED mechanisms to inhibit the action of Streptomycin.
They came up with S-T-R-E-Ptomycin to treat, wonder of wonders, a streptococcal infection. That has always been the drug of choice Marcus (as in Welby).
Streptomycin is an aminoglycoside that was DERIVED from bacteria of the Streptomyces genus.
You are slow googler, now if you only knew what that meant. Streptomycin is no longer a very effective drug and is seldom used, save for TB. But that isn't the main reason it isn't used on humans. So what is it Dr Welby?
