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The search for antibiotics began in the late 1800s, with the growing acceptance of the germ theory of disease, a theory which linked bacteria and other microbes to the causation of a variety of ailments. As a result, ... History of Antibiotics Books on the History of Penicillin Another Timeline of Antibiotics...
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Antibiotics work to kill bacteria. Bacteria are single-cell organisms. If bacteria make it past our immune systems and start reproducing inside our bodies, they cause disease. We want to kill the bacteria to eliminate the disease.
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Other new antibiotics derived from penicillin ... A strain of S. aureus called MSSA emerges which is resistant to a range of antibiotics including penicillin, erythromycin, streptomycin and tetracycline ... History of the Gene...
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Antibiotic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In common usage, an antibiotic (from the Ancient Greek: – anti , "against", and βίος – bios , "life") is a substance or compound that kills or inhibits the growth of bacteria. Antibiotics belon...
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Early History ... In the late 1940's through the early 1950's, streptomycin, chloramphenicol, and tetracycline were discovered and introduced as antibiotics.
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Penicillin was finally isolated in 1939, and in 1944 Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz, American microbiologists, isolated streptomycin and a number of other antibiotics from Streptomyces griseus.
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The discovery of antibiotics greatly improved the quality of human life in the twentieth century. Antibiotics are drugs such as penicillin (pronounced pen-ih-SILL-in) and streptomycin (pronounced strep-toe-MY-sin) used to fight infections and infectious diseases caused by bacteria.
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