Neomycin

Products Neomycin is found in several topical medications, including eye drops, eye ointments, ear drops, creams, and ointments. These are usually combination preparations. Neomycin is often combined with bacitracin, as the latter is only effective against gram-positive bacteria. Neomycin was discovered in the 1940s in Selman Waksman’s group at Rutgers University, which identified numerous antibiotics … Neomycin