pyocyanase

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pyocyanase - a yellow-green mixture of antibiotics obtained from the bacillus of green pus

antibiotic, antibiotic drug - a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections; "when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs"

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antibiotic drug

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These included the extraction of Pyocyanase from the bacterium Pseudomonas pyocyanea which could prevent the growth of anthrax and diphtheria bacilli.