Word: rimosus
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...soil samples from all over the world, researchers for Charles Pfizer & Co. Inc. announced last week that they had isolated a new and promising antibiotic from a piece of Indiana dirt. The drug, named terramycin (earth mold) by its Brooklyn discoverers, is secreted by a tiny organism, Streptomyces rimosus, of the same group which has produced three other major antibiotics -streptomycin, aureomycin and Chloromycetin...
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