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  2. Jul 21, 2020 · Antibiotics from Streptomyces. The antibiotic streptomycin was discovered in 1943 by Albert Schatz, a PhD student of Selman Waksman, with help from others including Doris Ralston, Elizabeth Bugie and Christine Reilly [ 9 ].

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  3. Jul 4, 2023 · HHS. USA.gov. 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.

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  4. 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...

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  5. Jul 20, 2017 · Discovered in the early 1940s, streptomycin was demonstrated to have activity against Gram-positive pathogens, and was used in the UK in 1947 during the first ever randomized clinical trials studying the efficacy of streptomycin in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis [28, 29].

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    • 2017
    • Genome Biol. 2017; 18: 130.
  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › StreptomycinStreptomycin - Wikipedia

    Streptomycin was first isolated on October 19, 1943, by Albert Schatz, a PhD student in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University in a research project funded by Merck and Co. Waksman and his laboratory staff discovered several antibiotics, including actinomycin, clavacin, streptothricin, streptomycin, grisein, neomycin ...

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  7. Jul 20, 2023 · 1943 – Streptomycin discovered. Streptomycin is the first antibiotic to be successful against tuberculosis. 1944 – Golden age of antibiotics. The discovery of natural product antibiotics peaks in the mid-1950s – including streptomycin, cephalosporins, tetracyclines, vancomycin and methicillin.

  8. Streptomycin was discovered by American biochemists Selman Waksman, Albert Schatz, and Elizabeth Bugie in 1943. The drug acts by interfering with the ability of a microorganism to synthesize certain vital proteins. It was the first antimicrobial agent developed after penicillin and the first antibiotic effective in treating tuberculosis.

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