Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine
The Antibiotic Makers
This is an insiders account of 50 years of genetic studies of the soil-inhabiting microbes that produce most of the antibiotics used to treat infections, as well as anti-cancer, anti-parasitic and immunosuppressant drugs. The book begins by describing how these microbes the actinomycetes were discovered in the latter part of the nineteenth century, but remained a Cinderella group until, in the 1940s, they shot to prominence with the discovery of streptomycin, the first effective treatment for tuberculosis and only the second antibiotic, after penicillin, to become a medical marvel. There followed a massive effort over several decades to fi…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-972228-0
- EAN: 9780199722280
- Produktnummer: 13932981
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 6'683 KB
- Abbildungen: 50 halftones
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