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A substance derived from a bacterium in the order Actinomycetales: neomycin.
[MYC(O)- (so called because the bacteria from which the substances were first derived were originally mistaken for fungi) + -IN.]
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A substance derived from a bacterium in the order Actinomycetales: erythromycin.
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