Is Aureomycin an Antibiotic? A Deep Dive into Chlortetracycline
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Discovered in 1945 from a soil mold, Aureomycin was the very first tetracycline antibiotic identified [1.7.4, 1.3.1]. To answer the question, **is Aureomycin an antibiotic?**—yes, it is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that revolutionized the treatment of numerous bacterial infections [1.7.2].
