Streptomyces venezuelae

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

{{Speciesbox

| genus = Streptomyces

| species = venezuelae

| authority = Ehrlich 1948

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Streptomyces venezuelae{{cite web| url = https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/54571| title = Species Streptomyces venezuelae| access-date = 2008-08-30| date = 2008-07-22 | publisher = UniProt}} is a species of soil-dwelling{{cite web |title=Streptomyces venezuelae (bacterium)|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/568846/Streptomyces-venezuelae|access-date=2008-08-01 |publisher=Britannica Online Encyclopaedia}} Gram-positive bacterium of the genus Streptomyces.{{cite journal |title= Composition and Ultrastructure of Streptomyces venezuelae |author1=S. G. Bradley |author2=Donna Ritzi |volume = 95|issue = 6|pages = 2358–2364|name-list-style=amp |date=1968-06-01 |journal= Journal of Bacteriology |publisher=The American Society for Microbiology|pmc = 315171|pmid = 5669907|doi = 10.1128/JB.95.6.2358-2364.1968}}

S. venezuelae is filamentous. In its spore-bearing stage, hyphae perfuse both above ground as aerial hyphae and in the soil substrate.

Chloramphenicol, the first antibiotic to be manufactured synthetically on a large scale, was originally derived from S. venezuelae.{{cite book|author1=Patrick R. Murray |author2=Ellen Jo Baron |author3=Michael A. Pfaller |author4=Fred C. Tenover |author5=Robert H. Yolken |title=Manual of Clinical Microbiology|edition=9th|isbn=978-1-55581-371-0|year=2007 }}{{cite book|last=Black|first=Jaquelyn G|title=Microbiology: principles and explorations|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0-471-42084-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/microbiology00jacq|year=2005}} Other secondary metabolites produced by S. venezuelae include jadomycin and pikromycin.