n :  a toxic polypeptide antibiotic isolated from a bacillus (Bacillus subtilis) and usu. used topically esp. against gram-positive bacteria
 
Tra•cy, Margaret, American hospital patient. The antibiotic bacitracin was first identified in 1945 in wound drainage from Margaret Tracy.
 
 
 
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