Bacillus sp. on Mueller-Hinton agar. Cultivation in aerobic
atmosphere, 28°C, 48 hours. Environmental isolate.
Streptomycetes and related genera are not the only bacteria producing clinicaly useful antibiotics. Some species from genus Bacillus produce, for example:
Colistin (polymyxin E) (Bacillus polymyxa var. colistinus).
It is one of the last-resort antibiotics for multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter. New Delhi metallo-ß-Lactamase multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae have also shown susceptibility to colistin.
Bacitracin (Bacillus subtilis var. Tracy): a common ingredient of eye and skin antibiotic preparations (in the United States, the popular brand name Neosporin: bacitracin along with neomycin and polymyxin B (derived from Bacillus polymyxa).
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