jul 14, 1943 - Selman Wakman and Albert Schatz Discover Streptomycin

Description:

Born of a bacteria common in dirt known as streptomyces, it becomes one of the antibiotics used in the treatment of tuberculosis where even penicillin can do nothing. Only Wakman is recognized for his work in the end though.

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Disease Through History: Important Points in Human Civilization As Told Through Illness

ByReiko C Usami

14 Dec 2018

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Date:

jul 14, 1943

Now

~ 82 years ago