Word: terramycin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antibiotics cited in the Justice Department suit are aureomycin, terramycin' and tetracycline-three broad-spectrum antibiotics, so called because, unlike narrow-spectrum penicillin, they treat a wide variety of diseases. Until 1953, according to Government charges, Cyanamid's aureomycin and Pfizer's terramycin accounted for 92% of the broad-spectrum market. At that point, all three defendants, plus New York's Heyden Chemical Co. (now Heyden-Newport Chemical Corp.), applied for patent rights on tetracycline, a new antibiotic made with an aureomycin base...