Actidione, an antibiotic produced by Streptomyces griseus, is highly active against a large number of yeasts but it has no marked antibacterial activity. Of 22 species of yeasts tested by Whiffen (1948), 9 were completely inhibited by 0.17 jig drug per ml; Saccharomyces cerevisae
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