Word: aureomycin
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...Then Fleming set out for Rochester, Minn., and other research centers to do some personal research: he wants to know what details other workers have found out about the way penicillin works in the bloodstream. He also wants to learn more about the newer antibiotics: streptomycin, neomycin and aureomycin...
...quantities large enough to meet all the demands of the medical profession. The demands, large already, are likely to grow. Chloromycetin, announced in October 1947, is the first drug to work against typhoid fever (TIME, July 12), has proved effective against a steadily mounting list of diseases. Like aureomycin, it works against the group of diseases caused by the tiny organisms called rickettsiae, including typhus fever, scrub typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. In a few cases it has worked against primary atypical ("virus") pneumonia...
After isolating 3,400 strains from 600 samples of soil, Dr. Duggar found one in 1945 that looked promising. Because it was a golden yellow color, it was called aureomycin. More than two years of careful testing in the laboratory followed. About a year ago, aureomycin was first used to treat human beings. Results were good. By last week aureomycin had taken its place as a standard medicine...
Doctors had found no sure weapons against rickettsiae, * the tiny organisms that are smaller than bacteria but larger than most viruses. Aureomycin has been successful against many rickettsial and virus-like diseases: Q-fever, rickettsial pox, parrot fever, typhus fever, lympho-granuloma venereum (a venereal disease...
Week after week, new reports of aureomycin's success have come in. Last month, in Washington, a research group headed by Dr. Harry F. Dowling of George Washington University reported that aureomycin was better than any other antibiotic for treating undulant fever (brucellosis), and that it produced good results against streptococcic and staphylococcic infections, scarlet fever, and a type of pneumonia that doctors sometimes call "primary atypical," sometimes "virus." The British medical journal Lancet has reported that aureomycin "has the widest range of activity of any known antibacterial substance...