Amycolatopsis orientalis is a Gram-positive bacterium in the phylum Actinomycetota.
[1][2] It produces several substances with antimicrobial properties, including the antibiotic drug vancomycin.
[3][4] A. orientalis was originally discovered by Edmund Kornfeld, an organic chemist at Eli Lilly and Company, in a soil sample gathered by a missionary from forests on the island of Borneo.
The antibiotic vancomycin was first isolated from the bacteria in 1953.
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