Abikoviromycin is an antiviral antibiotic piperidine alkaloid with the molecular formula C10H11NO. It is produced by the bacteria Streptomyces abikoensis and Streptomyces rubescens. It was discovered at National Institutes of Health in Japan (now called the National Institute of Infectious Diseases) and first reported in the Japanese Medical Journal in 1951 in a paper authored by researchers Hamao Umezawa, Tadakatu Tazaki, and Setsuko Fukuyama.
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