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Post penicillin antibiotics: From acceptance to resistance?, vol. 6

Tansey, EM and Reynolds, LAT (Eds). (2000) Post penicillin antibiotics: From acceptance to resistance?, vol. 6. [Book]. Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine: Vol.6. The Wellcome Trust: London. Green open access

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Abstract

Volume 6 describes the impact of the introduction of penicillin during the Second World War, which led to a revolution in both drug development and therapeutics. Several important themes emerged during the course of the meeting – discovery of the antimicrobial effects of actinomycetes, streptomycin as specific therapy for TB, scientific research in pharmaceutical company laboratories and the mechanisms whereby the products of that research were manufactured, marketed and utilized in the clinic, the increasing recognition of the clinical successes and the subsequent problems of antibiotic resistance, and the discovery of the mechanisms that transferred resistance. Participants included: Dr Ralph Batchelor, Sir John Crofton, Professor Naomi Datta, Dr Peter Doyle, Professor Harold Lambert, Professor D A Mitchison and Professor Gordon Stewart. Tansey E M, Reynolds L A. (eds) (2000) Post penicillin antibiotics: From acceptance to resistance? Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 6. London: The Wellcome Trust, x+71pp, 2 tables, 1 table of chemical structures, subject and name index. Depth: 6mm. [Published January 2000].

Type: Book
Title: Post penicillin antibiotics: From acceptance to resistance?, vol. 6
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Keywords: streptomycin, PAS, Isoniazid, TB, MRC, beta-lactams, Beecham, witness seminar
UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/2074
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