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Antibiotics
The discovery, action, and resistance of antimicrobial drugs.
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- How did Albert Schatz isolate streptomycin from Streptomyces griseus in October 1943?
- How did Albert Schatz isolate streptomycin from Streptomyces griseus in Waksman's laboratory?
- How did Compound 606 target Treponema pallidum, the bacterium behind syphilis, without simply attacking the whole body?
- How did Ehrlich's scientific legacy diverge between his public predictions and his research career?
- How did Ehrlich's targeted-molecule approach shape the drug development that followed, from sulphonamides to penicillin?
- How did Salvarsan change the prognosis for someone with syphilis?
- How did Waksman and Dubos come to look for antibiotics in ordinary soil?
- How did confirming the bacterial cause of syphilis connect to the use of salvarsan as a treatment?
- How did the discovery of prontosil lead to an entire new class of antibacterial drugs?
- How does Ehrlich's side-chain theory describe the way antibodies recognize invading molecules?
- How was streptomycin isolated, and why was its effectiveness against tuberculosis so significant?
- In what sense did Salvarsan establish the principle behind modern pharmacology?
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- What caused the dispute between Waksman and Schatz over credit for discovering streptomycin?
- What did Fleming actually observe on the contaminated Petri dish in 1928?
- What did Paul Ehrlich mean by a 'magic bullet' (Zauberkugel) and how did Salvarsan fulfill that idea?
- What did Paul Ehrlich mean by a 'magic bullet' and where did the concept come from?
- What forced Domagk to delay accepting his Nobel Prize until after the war?
- What founding insight about microbes launched the antibiotic era?
- What happened in the credit dispute between Schatz and Waksman over the discovery of streptomycin?
- What happened when Domagk's own daughter Hildegard developed a streptococcal infection?
- What made neoarsphenamine an improvement over the original Salvarsan compound?
- What was Selman Waksman's reasoning for searching soil microbes for antibacterial compounds?
- Why did Waksman systematically screen soil organisms in search of antibiotics?
- Why was Gerhard Domagk testing coal-tar dyes for antibacterial activity in the first place?
- Why was compound 606 set aside and forgotten before Sahachiro Hata retested it?
- Why was penicillin ineffective against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, leaving tuberculosis largely untreatable into the 1940s?
Sources
- Death of Paul R. Ehrlich
- Discovery of streptomycin
- Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Paul Ehrlich introduces Salvarsan, the first targeted chemotherapy drug
- Salvarsan and neoarsphenamine in use against syphilis
- Treponema pallidum confirmed as cause of syphilis