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What is ivermectin made of?

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The discovery of the compounds that led to ivermectin won a Nobel Prize in 2015. So, **what is ivermectin made of**? It is a semisynthetic antiparasitic derived from a naturally occurring soil bacterium, *Streptomyces avermitilis*.