| from penicillin-streptomycin to amikacin-vancomycin: antibiotic decontamination of cardiovascular homografts in singapore. | in february 2012, the national cardiovascular homograft bank (nchb) became the first tissue bank outside of north america to receive accreditation from the american association of tissue banks. from 2008 to 2009, nchb had been decontaminating its cardiovascular homografts with penicillin and streptomycin. the antibiotic decontamination protocol was changed in january 2010 as amikacin and vancomycin were recommended, in order to cover bacteria isolated from post-recovery and post- antibiotic incu ... | 2012 | 23251592 |