Streptomycin

Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIBRC) has recommended to ban the use of antibiotics streptomycin and tetracycline

Benefits of Streptomycin:

▪️Important use for previously treated tuberculosis (TB) patients.

▪️Used in multidrug-resistant TB patients and in certain cases of TB meningitis (brain TB).

▪️The (WHO) recognises streptomycin as a critically important medicine for human use.