| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 429 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Agents of infection -- Out of darkness -- From quinine to sulphonamides (by way of serendipity) -- Wonder drugs -- The taming of tuberculosis and leprosy -- The golden years of pills and profits -- Progress against parasites -- The poor relations : fungi and viruses -- The spectre at the feast. |
| Summary |
Between 1935 and 1944 the field of microbiology, and by implication medicine as a whole, underwent dramatic advancement. The discovery of the extraordinary antibacterial properties of sulphonamides, penicillin, and streptomycin triggered a frantic hunt for more antimicrobial drugs that was to yield an abundant harvest in a very short space of time. By the early 1960s more than 50 antibacterial agents were available to the prescribing physician and, largely by a process of chemicalmodification of existing compounds, that number has more than tripled today. We have become so used to the ready av. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Anti-infective agents -- History -- 20th century.
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Anti-infective agents. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Anti-Infective Agents -- history. |
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History, 20th Century. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Greenwood, David, 1935- Antimicrobial drugs. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 9780199534845 (DLC) 2007041196 (OCoLC)174094306 |
| ISBN |
9780191560071 (electronic book) |
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0191560073 (electronic book) |
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1283582503 |
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9781283582506 |
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9780199534845 |
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0199534845 |
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