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Antibiotics have been used for millennia to treat infections, although until the last century or so people did not know the infections were caused by bacteria. Various moulds and plant extracts were used to treat infections by some of the earliest civilisations – the ancient Egyptians, for example, applied mouldy bread to infected wounds.
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5 de jul. de 2017 · The advent of modern antibiotics contributed enormously to the dramatic extension of human lifespan since their discovery by virtue of their lethal and selective action against pathogenic...
- Kyriacos C Nicolaou, Stephan Rigol
- 2018
1 de oct. de 2019 · A brief history of antibiotics. The use of antibiotic-producing microbes to prevent disease stretches back millennia, with traditional poultices of mouldy bread being used to treat open wounds in Serbia, China, Greece and Egypt more than 2000 years ago.
- Matthew I Hutchings, Andrew W Truman, Barrie Wilkinson
- 2019
8 de dic. de 2010 · This article gives a very brief overview of the antibiotic era, beginning from the discovery of first antibiotics until the present day situation, which is marred by the emergence of hard-to-treat multiple antibiotic-resistant infections.
- Rustam I. Aminov
- 2010
10 de ago. de 2022 · The brief history of antibiotics, mere decades since their discovery in the mid-20th century, is one of tremendous success and transformative impact on medicine. The direct control and prevention of infection offered by these drugs have profoundly changed the trajectory of human life.
In just over 100 years antibiotics have drastically changed modern medicine and extended the average human lifespan by 23 years. The discovery of penicillin in 1928 started the golden age of natural product antibiotic discovery that peaked in the mid-1950s.
Hace 4 días · Antibiotic, chemical substance produced by a living organism, generally a microorganism, that is detrimental to other microorganisms. Antibiotics came into worldwide prominence with the introduction of penicillin in 1941. Since then they have revolutionized the treatment of bacterial infections.
