Talk:Kanamycin A

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Kanamycin may not be used much anymore as a drug for humans, but it is ubiquitous in microbiology labs (for instance as an ingredient in medium on which clones with DNA inserts are grown, to ensure that only bacteria with the desired insert - to which a gene conferring resistance to kanamycin has been appended - are able to grow.)

Kanamycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic agent used in the treatment of various infections caused by susceptible bacteria. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8F8:1C3B:A73:DCBF:81B0:FB8F:4283 (talk) 20:23, 19 January 2024 (UTC) 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. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8F8:1C3B:A73:DCBF:81B0:FB8F:4283 (talk) 20:22, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Asteen 02:42, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

The last paragraph is obviously either copy and pasted from somewhere or a relic from a section that was once part of the article. It needs to be removed (not terribly relevant) or cleaned up to fit the context. Slimdude87 (talk) 15:04, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

What is it effecive against?
There needs to be a section in wiki articles on antibiotics outlining which bact groups are and are not susceptible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MevKurray (talk • contribs) 05:06, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Pharmacology
While the article states "Kanamycin interacts with the 30S subunit of prokaryotic ribosomes. " two other manufacturer sources specify the 70S subunit as the site of Kanamycin action. Briancady413 (talk) 15:36, 28 December 2010 (UTC) 15:35, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Uses in plant transformation
Kanamycin resistance is used as a selectable marker in plants, because kanamycin inhibits chloroplast ribosomes (leading to white plants). However, I don't know much about this and don't have a source. If someone does know a bit more about it, I think a section on that would be good since that's what I came here for. 131.111.185.74 (talk) 09:28, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Peer Review Student 1: Expanding WikiProject Pharmacology (Fall 2016)
Peer Review Student 1

Wiki Ed/UCSF/Words as Power - Expanding WikiProject Pharmacology (Fall 2016)

STUDENT 1 – Does the draft submission reflect a neutral point of view? If not, specify

Response: Yes, the draft submission reflects an overall neutral point of view. Based on the wide breath of references that reflect neutral and evidence based clinical information, it can be assessed that this group did an overall superb effort to draft a clear, concise and evidence based wiki entry for Kanamycin A. One proposed revision regarding point of view can be done in the introduction paragraph about pregnancy: instead of using the word "should" (which sounds like advice is being given), that can be substituted with "is recommended" or "is not recommended". (E.g. Kanamycin is not recommended for use during pregnancy...)

Dinhtt (talk) 03:00, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Group Peer Review
2. STUDENT 2 – Are the points included verifiable with cited secondary sources that are freely accessible? If not, specify… Yes, they are. At first we had included some resources which you needed to sign in to to access, but we switched those for sources that were more freely accessibleBrentn9 (talk) 22:34, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject: peer review student 3 (Fall 2016)
Wiki Ed/UCSF/Words as Power - Expanding WikiProject Pharmacology (Fall 2016) Peer Review Student 3

1. STUDENT 3 – Are the edits formatted consistent with Wikipedia’s manual of style for medicine-related articles? If not, specify…

Yes, this page is consistent with the Wikipedia’s manual of style and formatting, which includes an introductory lead section as well as a table of contents with section headings. Citations are also placed correctly, which is after the period of the sentence. The intro is also short, concise, and includes the most relevant information.

Mpeng808 (talk) 01:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Kanamycin
As the other kanamycins other than A are not avaliable in most of the world most people refer to kanamycin A as simple kanamycin. We already have a "not to be confused tag" Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 16:56, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Aquarium Use Omitted from Article
I don't know how to set up a new part of the article with footnotes, but I just bought some Kanaflex brand kanamycin, marketed by Seachem (in the United States, contrary to the blanket statement in the article), to treat a tropical fish (honey Gourami) with dropsy, as recommended by a tropical fish disease expert. I looked for kanamycin on Wikipedia hoping to find further information about this application, but to my dismay I found nothing on point. Can anyone fill in this gap? 2601:2C7:881:2830:E0C8:8B68:A007:94EA (talk) 14:26, 13 July 2022 (UTC)