Drug Summary

  Drug name:  kanamycin
  Chemical name:  Kanamycin A sulfate
  Formula:  C₁₈H₃₆N₄O_{11<
  Weight:   484.4986
  CAS no:  8063-07-8
  DrugBank link:  DB01172
  Description:  Kanamycin (also known as kanamycin A) is an aminoglycoside bacteriocidal antibiotic, available in oral, intravenous, and intramuscular forms, and used to treat a wide variety of infections. Kanamycin is isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces kanamyceticus and its most commonly used form is kanamycin sulfate.
  Indication:  For treatment of infections where one or more of the following are the known or suspected pathogens: E. coli, Proteus species (both indole-positive and indole-negative), E. aerogenes, K. pneumoniae, S. marcescens, and Acinetobacter species.}