pyocyanase


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Noun 1. pyocyanase - a yellow-green mixture of antibiotics obtained from the bacillus of green pus
antibiotic, antibiotic drug - a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections; "when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs"
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These included the extraction of Pyocyanase from the bacterium Pseudomonas pyocyanea which could prevent the growth of anthrax and diphtheria bacilli.
The early days of antibiotics