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Mar 9, 2006 · In October of 1943, Schatz discovered streptomycin. But his professor, Selman Waksman, took the credit, relegating Schatz to the footnotes of history. Over fifty years later, German-born Inge Auerbacher read an article that named Schatz as co-discoverer of the drug.
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- Inge Auerbacher
The death rates associated with the disease also dropped off precipitously: while in 1930, 70 out of every 100,000 people in the United States died from the disease, by 1954 only 10 out of every 100,000 did. The advent of a cure greatly reduced the fears surrounding the disease and virtually ended the Sanatorium movement.
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Jul 4, 2023 · Streptomycin is the first discovered aminoglycoside antibiotic, originally isolated from the bacteria Streptomyces griseus. It is now primarily used as part of the multi-drug treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. It has additional activity against several aerobic gram-negative bacteria. This activity will discuss the indications, mechanism of action, and contraindications of using streptomycin ...
- Mitchell Waters, Prasanna Tadi
- 2023/07/04
Jul 5, 2017 · Another important milestone in the history of antibiotics was the discovery of streptomycin (6, Figure 1) from Actinomyces griseus (now Streptomyces griseus), the first aminoglycoside antibiotic ...
- Kyriacos C Nicolaou, Stephan Rigol
- 2018
May 8, 2012 · As dozens more antibiotics were found, many from the same family as streptomycin, the drug companies created oligopolies and reaped big profits. Pringle uses firsthand accounts and archives in the United States and Europe to reveal the intensely human story behind the discovery that started a revolution in the treatment of infectious diseases ...
- Peter Pringle
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2012
- 080277895X, 9780802778956
Jul 16, 2013 · As dozens more antibiotics were found, many from the same family as streptomycin, the drug companies created oligopolies and reaped big profits. Pringle uses firsthand accounts and archives in the United States and Europe to reveal the intensely human story behind the discovery that started a revolution in the treatment of infectious diseases ...
Feb 3, 2007 · The book begins by describing how these microbes - the actinomycetes - were discovered in the latter part of the nineteenth century, but remained a 'Cinderella' group until, in the 1940s, they shot to prominence with the discovery of streptomycin, the first effective treatment for tuberculosis and only the second antibiotic after penicillin to ...
