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Weapons of Microbial Drug Resistance Abound in Soil Flora, Science
 









Excerpts: Following the serendipitous discovery of penicillin in 1928 and
streptomycin in 1943, the pharmaceutical industry has been screening thousands
of soil samples for antimicrobial agents produced by inhabitant microbes.
Chloramphenicol, clavulanic acid, erythromycin, gentamicin, rifampin,
teichoplanin, tetracycline, and vancomycin represent only a few products of this
spectacularly successful effort, and addition of these agents to the therapeutic
arsenal has played a major role in controlling bacterial disease, the primary
cause of human mortality in the preantibiotic era.
Source: Weapons of Microbial Drug Resistance Abound in Soil Flora[
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/311/5759/342 ], Alexander Tomasz,
Science : 342-343., 06/01/20

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