Method for preparing multhiomycin

摘要

The present invention relates to a method of cultivation and extraction of multhiomycin, an antibiotic, and relates also to a veterinary medicine containing multhiomycin as an effective ingredient and more particularly, the present invention provides a method for obtaining multhiomycin by cultivating a multhiomycin-producing fungus such as Streptomyces sp. 8446-CC1 belonging to genus Streptomyces in a culture medium containing a sulfur-containing amino acid and treating the culture medium with a mixed solvent of alcohols and halogenated hydrocarbons or ketones and provides a medicine for promoting growth of animals and preventing various kinds of diseases of animals which contains multhiomycin as an essential component.