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Word: gliotoxin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...objects of the most exciting search in all bacteriology. In dozens of laboratories, experts are looking for antibiotics to fight the many diseases penicillin cannot cure: tuberculosis, leprosy, cholera, dysentery, tularemia, salmonella food poisoning, many virus diseases. Already about 20 substances with such fancy names as clavacin, gliotoxin, patulin have been isolated from bacteria and molds, tested, discarded as either too weak or poisonous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Newest Wonder Drug | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

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