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Between 1935 and 1944 the field of microbiology, and by implication medicine as a whole, underwent dramatic advancement. The discovery of the extraordinary antibacterial properties of sulphonamides, penicillin, and streptomycin triggered a frantic hunt for more antimicrobial drugs that was to yield an abundant harvest in a very short space of time. By the early 1960s more than 50 antibacterial agents were available to the prescribing physician and, largely by a process of chemicalmodification of
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- Author
- David Greenwood
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199534845
- Category
- medicine
- Subjects
- Science, Medical, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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