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May 24, 2005 · During the 1940s, Waksman and his students isolated more than fifteen antibiotics, the most famous of which was streptomycin, the first effective treatment for tuberculosis. Contents. Selman Waksman’s Early Years. Waksman Moves to America. Waksman’s Research on Actinomycetes, and the Search for Antibiotics. The Trials of Streptomycin.
Dr. Waksman's studies had led to the discovery of streptomycin, a new antibiotic. Streptomycin was the first effective cure for tuberculosis (TB). Its history, however, is a rather complicated story. It persistently presented problems for Dr. Waksman up to his death in 1973.
- H. Boyd Woodruff
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- Appl Environ Microbiol. 2014 Jan; 80(1): 2-8.
Since the discovery of streptomycin, the production and clinical applica-tion of this antibiotic have had a phenomenal rise. Streptomyces griseus, the streptomycin-producing organism, was first isolated in September 1943, and the first public announcement of the antibiotic was made in January 1944.
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Selman Abraham Waksman (July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Jewish American inventor, Nobel Prize laureate, biochemist and microbiologist whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics. A professor of biochemistry and microbiology at Rutgers ...
Albert Israel Schatz (2 February 1920 – 17 January 2005) was an American microbiologist and academic who discovered streptomycin, [1] the first antibiotic known to be effective for the treatment of tuberculosis. [2]
Jan 1, 1988 · A major breakthrough in 1941 was the isolation from Actinomycete lavendulae, of streptothricin. This antibiotic, discovered with the assistance of Boyd Woodruff, was water soluble, heat stable, effective against Gramnegative as well as Gram-positive bacteria (but not the tubercle bacillus).
The antibiotic streptomycin was discovered soon after penicillin was introduced into medicine. Selman Waksman, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery, has since generally been credited as streptomycin's sole discoverer.
