A chemical substance extracted from Blastomyces fungi, sometimes used in medical testing or research on fungal infections.
From 'Blastomyces' plus '-in' (a chemical compound suffix), created in the early 1900s as researchers studied the fungus's properties.
Blastomycin is like the fungus's fingerprint—doctors can use it to test if someone's immune system has encountered Blastomyces before, similar to how tuberculin tests work for TB exposure.
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