The Antibiotics Revolution Part 2: Penicillins and Cephalosporins

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Over the past few installments in this series, we saw how the German dye industry became the Pharma industry around the turn of the 20th century, and then turned a red synthetic dye, Prontosil, into the first broad spectrum antibacterial drug. This gave rise to the first class of synthetic antibiotics, the sulfa drugs. The sulfa drugs saved million... Read More