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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Peptides > Peptides, Cyclic > Bacitracin
Polycyclic Compounds > Macrocyclic Compounds > Peptides, Cyclic > Bacitracin

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Bacitracin  

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Entry terms

  • Ak Tracin
  • Ak-Tracin
  • Altracin
  • Baciguent
  • Baci IM
  • Baci-IM
  • Bacitin
  • Bacitracine Martinet
  • Bacitracin Zinc Complex
  • Martinet, Bacitracine
  • Ocu Tracin
  • Ocu-Tracin
  • OcuTracin
  • Topitracin

Scope note

  • A complex of cyclic peptide antibiotics produced by the Tracy-I strain of Bacillus subtilis. The commercial preparation is a mixture of at least nine bacitracins with bacitracin A as the major constituent. It is used topically to treat open infections such as infected eczema and infected dermal ulcers. (From Goodman and Gilman, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 8th ed, p1140)

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