Word: streptomycinate
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...violet color of the Cuban soil mold in which it was found), Chas. Pfizer & Co. of Brooklyn reported that it had already shown promise in treating tuberculous mice and guinea pigs. Tests on humans are just beginning. Viomycin seems to work against tubercle bacilli which are resistant to streptomycin...
Like most scientific discoveries of modern times, streptomycin was found as a result of teamwork. Members of the 1943 team working on antibiotics in the Department of Microbiology at New Jersey's Rutgers University were Dr. Selman A. Waksman, head of the department, and a group of graduate students including Albert Schatz. By 1946, when Schatz left the campus, it was still not clear how rich a gold mine streptomycin would prove...
...Then streptomycin royalties reached almost $1,000,000 a year (TIME, Nov. 7). Waksman assigned his patents to the Rutgers Research and Endowment Foundation. So did Dr. Schatz. But last week, in New Jersey superior court, Albert Schatz, now assistant professor of biology at Brooklyn College, filed suit for a half of Rutgers' profits, said he had signed away his royalties under coercion...
...announced last week that they had isolated a new and promising antibiotic from a piece of Indiana dirt. The drug, named terramycin (earth mold) by its Brooklyn discoverers, is secreted by a tiny organism, Streptomyces rimosus, of the same group which has produced three other major antibiotics -streptomycin, aureomycin and Chloromycetin...
...poisoning of the body by tubercle bacilli. It also gives the patient a sense of wellbeing. A gain in weight often results from the treatment: one tuberculosis patient, who had been in & out of hospitals for 20 years, put on 26 Ibs. in four months. Used with streptomycin, PAS is invaluable in keeping down the development of strains of germs which have learned to resist streptomycin. The drug, conclude the doctors, is so promising that it should be tested more widely...