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-mycin

antibiotics, produced by Streptomyces strains (see also -kacin)

WHO's definition, quoted as written in the 2024 stem book
Names only. This page is about -mycin as a part of a name. It has nothing on uses, doses, side effects or interactions of any medicine that carries it, and nothing here is medical advice. Ask a pharmacist or doctor about the medicine itself.

Where it sits in a name

WHO writes the stem as -mycin. So the letters mycin sit at the end of the name (…mycin).

All 108 names WHO lists under -mycin

These are the INN in group (a) of Part IV of the stem book: names in which WHO says the stem is used as defined. The stem is marked where WHO places it. A-Z as WHO lists them.

  1. alvespimycin
  2. ambomycin
  3. amfomycin
  4. antelmycin
  5. antramycin
  6. apramycin
  7. avilamycin
  8. azalomycin
  9. azithromycin
  10. azotomycin
  11. bambermycin
  12. bekanamycin
  13. berythromycin
  14. bicozamycin
  15. biniramycin
  16. bleomycin
  17. bluensomycin
  18. cactinomycin
  19. carbomycin
  20. cethromycin
  21. cirolemycin
  22. clarithromycin
  23. clindamycin
  24. coumamycin
  25. dactinomycin
  26. daptomycin
  27. dihydrostreptomycin
  28. diproleandomycin
  29. dirithromycin
  30. duazomycin
  31. efrotomycin
  32. endomycin
  33. enramycin
  34. enviomycin
  35. erythromycin
  36. flurithromycin
  37. fosfomycin
  38. fosmidomycin
  39. gamithromycin
  40. ganefromycin
  41. hachimycin
  42. hamycin
  43. heliomycin
  44. josamycin
  45. kanamycin
  46. kitasamycin
  47. laidlomycin
  48. lexithromycin
  49. lidimycin
  50. lincomycin
  51. lividomycin
  52. lucimycin
  53. maridomycin
  54. midecamycin
  55. mikamycin
  56. mirincamycin
  57. mithramycin
  58. mitomycin
  59. mocimycin
  60. modithromycin
  61. nafithromycin
  62. natamycin
  63. nebramycin
  64. neomycin
  65. neutramycin
  66. nogalamycin
  67. oleandomycin
  68. olivomycin
  69. paldimycin
  70. paromomycin
  71. paulomycin
  72. peliomycin
  73. peplomycin
  74. pirlimycin
  75. plicamycin
  76. porfiromycin
  77. primycin
  78. pristinamycin
  79. puromycin
  80. ranimycin
  81. relomycin
  82. retaspimycin
  83. ribostamycin
  84. rifamycin
  85. rokitamycin
  86. roxithromycin
  87. rufocromomycin
  88. rutamycin
  89. salinomycin
  90. sedecamycin
  91. solithromycin
  92. sparsomycin
  93. spectinomycin
  94. spiramycin
  95. stallimycin
  96. steffimycin
  97. streptomycin
  98. surotomycin
  99. talisomycin
  100. tanespimycin
  101. telithromycin
  102. terdecamycin
  103. troleandomycin
  104. trospectomycin
  105. tulathromycin
  106. vancomycin
  107. viomycin
  108. virginiamycin

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Decoded

hamycin

Listed INNCarries the WHO stem -mycin

  • -mycinend of the nameWHO lists it hereWHO definition: antibiotics, produced by Streptomyces strains (see also -kacin)

“hamycin” is an INN that WHO lists under -mycin in the 2024 stem book.

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Source and licence

The definition of -mycin (Part II B) and the 108 names (Part IV, group (a)) are from Use of stems in the selection of International Nonproprietary Names (INN) for pharmaceutical substances, 2024 (World Health Organization, Stem book 2024 (ISBN 978-92-4-009938-8); covers proposed INN Lists 1-129). Checked .

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