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Streptomycin is not altogether a harmless remedy, but with greater experience with this antibiotic, methods have been devised to minimize this effect.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 - Presentation Speech 1964
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"I was desperately ill and fading fast when the specialist asked five of us to be guinea pigs for a new drug called Streptomycin," McLaren said in 2001.
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"I was desperately ill and fading fast when the specialist asked five of us to be guinea pigs for a new drug called Streptomycin," McLaren said.
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"I was desperately ill and fading fast when the specialist asked five of us to be guinea pigs for a new drug called Streptomycin," McLaren said in 2001.
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"I was desperately ill and fading fast when the specialist asked five of us to be guinea pigs for a new drug called Streptomycin," McLaren said in 2001.
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Streptomycin killed tuberculosis-causing mycobacteria in petri dishes, but its efficacy in humans was unknown.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Streptomycin killed tuberculosis-causing mycobacteria in petri dishes, but its efficacy in humans was unknown.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Streptomycin killed tuberculosis-causing mycobacteria in petri dishes, but its efficacy in humans was unknown.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Streptomycin and related antibiotics come directly from actinomycetes; Biaxin and Zithromax are semi-synthetic antibiotics made from this same class of bacteria.
Archive 2009-02-01 doyle 2009
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Streptomycin and related antibiotics come directly from actinomycetes; Biaxin and Zithromax are semi-synthetic antibiotics made from this same class of bacteria.
Actinomycetes doyle 2009
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