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Amphotericin B is a polyene antifungal drug, often used intravenously for systemic fungal infections. It was originally extracted from Streptomyces nodosus, a filamentous bacterium, in 1955 at the Squibb Institute for Medical Research from cultures of an undescribed streptomycete isolated from the soil collected in the Orinoco River region of Venezuela. Its name originates from the chemical's amphoteric properties. Two amphotericins, Amphotericin A and Amphotericin B are known, but only...


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Why does amphotericin B cause severe side effects in humans?
The antibiotic amphotericin B causes leaks in cells by combining with sterols in the plasma...

Amphotericin B is an antifungal drug. Fungi and humans are both eukaryotes and have simililar membrane structures.

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    Hi I need a protocol .for a cylinder plate method. I am testing Amphotericin B againt Hi I need a protocol .for a cylinder plate method. I am testing Amphotericin B againt Saccharomyyces...

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    Hi all, Has anyone used G418 and antibiotic/antimycotic (has penicillin/strep/amphotericin B Hi, I use G418 or Hygromycin B with Ampicillin in YEP agar to isolate a G418/Hygro ...

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