STREPTOMYCIN, an antibiotic agent obtained from certain strains of Actinomyces griseus, was first described by Schatz, Bugie and Waksman 1 in 1944. Immediate interest was attracted to this agent ...

T he mass manufacture of penicillin during World War II stimulated urgent interest in other medicinally important soil microorganisms. Selman Waksman, chair of microbiology at the New Jersey ...

Streptococcal endocarditis: In penicillin-sensitive alpha and non-hemolytic streptococcal endocarditis (penicillin MIC0.1 mcg/mL), streptomycin may be used for 2-week treatment concomitantly with ...

Streptomycin, of course, was the great success story of the Waksman screening protocols. There would be other antibiotics found, most notably neomycin, isolated by Hubert Lechevalier, which is still ...

Penicillin discovered. Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish researcher, is credited with the discovery of penicillin in 1928. ... such as streptomycin, aminoglycosides, ...

PENICILLIN and streptomycin have been commonly added to growth media used in the culture of human leucocytes for cytogenetic analysis. Since the literature on human cytogenetics is increasing ...

T ucked away in a dusty corner of St. Mary’s Hospital in London lies a tiny, one-room museum dedicated to one of the most important discoveries in the history of medicine: a mold that changed the ...

1943: A biochemistry grad student discovers streptomycin, a synthetic antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. Sole credit for the discovery initially went to Selman ...