Glycopeptide recovery process

摘要

A process for recovering vancomycin-type glycopeptide antibiotics which comprises 1) commingling the fermentation medium in which the antibiotic is produced with a polystyrene divinylbenzene resin such as Dow XFS-43278.00, 2) separating the resin from the medium and 3) eluting the antibiotic from the resin. This improvement avoids preliminary filtration and pH adjustment of the broth, simplifies waste-disposal problems and eliminates antibiotic losses due to mycelial adsorption and filtration.