Antibiotics
Industrial microbiology is perhaps best known for its development of antibiotics and pharmaceutical agents. Penicillin, streptomycin, and a host of other antimicrobial agents originated from industrial microbiology in the 1950s and 1960s.
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“Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.... Think it over ... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid ... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
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