The coming of age of antibiotics: Discovery and therapeutic value

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1213, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-4

  Bush, Karen ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Historical commentary; S.A. Waksman; Streptomycin

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG PURITY; DRUG RESEARCH; FERMENTATION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM;

EID: 78650334113     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05872.x     Document Type: Article

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