Description
Chemical structure: aminoglycosideSpectinomycin has generally been used for the treatment of gonorrhea in males, and a study conducted shows that spectinomycin dihydrochloride pentahydrate provides effective treatment against gonorrhea as well. Clinically, spectinomycin dihydrochloride pentahydrate is easier to use in injections as it shows higher solubility than spectinomycin.Spectinomycin is an aminocyclitol antibiotic derived fromStreptomyces spectabilis. It has been shown to have a wide variety of uses, including treating acute gonorrheal urethritis and cervictis, to mark cell layers to monitor cell fate during leaf development, as a selection marker in plant related transformation systems for plant cells containing the marker gene Spcr, to study respiratory tract infections of cattle caused byPasteurella multocidaandMannheimia haemolytica,and to generate plants deficient for the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase on MS-agar media. Spectinomycin also has use in amplification of low copy number plasmid carrying replicons. It is recommended for use in cell culture applications at 7.5-20 mg/L.Spectinomycin dihydrochloride pentahydrate has been used as a supplement in different types of media