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  2. Timeline of antibiotics - Wikipedia

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    1942 – gramicidin S, the first peptide antibiotic; 1942 – sulfadimidine; 1943 – sulfamerazine; 1944 – streptomycin, the first aminoglycoside [2] 1947 – sulfadiazine; 1948 – chlortetracycline, the first tetracycline; 1949 – chloramphenicol, the first amphenicol [2] 1949 – neomycin; 1950 – oxytetracycline; 1950 – penicillin G ...

  3. History of penicillin - Wikipedia

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    The history of penicillin follows observations and discoveries of evidence of antibiotic activity of the mould Penicillium that led to the development of penicillins that became the first widely used antibiotics. Following the production of a relatively pure compound in 1942, penicillin was the first naturally-derived antibiotic.

  4. Medical experimentation in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Eleven children died in the trial: five after taking Trovan and six after taking an older antibiotic used for comparison in the clinical trial. Others suffered blindness, deafness and brain damage, the cause of which is difficult to determine because these disabilities are relatively common outcomes of the disease itself.

  5. Abdullahi v. Pfizer, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    To test its new antibiotic, trovafloxacin (Trovan), Pfizer gave 100 children trovafloxacin, while another 100 received the gold-standard anti-meningitis treatment, ceftriaxone, a cephalosporin antibiotic. [1] Pfizer gave the children a substantially reduced dose of the ceftriaxone (specifically, 33 mg/kg) [2] relative to that described on the ...

  6. Antibiotics can help certain bacteria survive for longer ...

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  7. Common antibiotics are still in shortage as strep cases rise

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    Many parents across the US are working overtime to take care of sick children. Not only are Covid-19, the flu and RSV circulating, but doctors say cases of strep throat are on the rise.

  8. List of drugs by year of discovery - Wikipedia

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    In 1907 Alfred Bertheim synthesized Arsphenamine, the first man-made antibiotic. In 1927 Erik Rotheim patented the first aerosol spray can. In 1933 Robert Pauli Scherer created a method to develop softgels. William Roberts studies about penicillin were continued by Alexander Fleming, who in 1928 concluded that penicillin had an antibiotic ...

  9. Federal health officials report shortage of widely used ... - AOL

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    One of the most commonly used antibiotics in the country, amoxicillin, is in short supply, federal health officials say. The notice from the Food and Drug Administration about an oral solution of ...