, Introduction
• natural and semisynthetic
• polybasicamino groups linked
glycosidically to two or more aminosugar
residues.
• effective against gram-negative
• discovered in 1944 by Waksman and his
colleagues.
• produced by soil actino-mycetes and have
many common properties.
, Classification
• Systemic aminoglycosides
• Streptomycin
• Amikacin
• Gentamicin
• Sisomicin
• Kanamycin
• Netilmicin
• Tobramycin
• Topical aminoglycosides
• Neomycin
• Framycetin