Word: clavacin
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Professor Harry Warren Anderson of the University of Illinois's horticulture department has made a new drug, clavacin, from mold. He thinks it "may be more useful" than penicillin because, in test tubes, "it kills all bacteria killed by penicillin" and more besides. He has cured some plant diseases with clavacin but has yet to make tests on animals...
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