April 23, 2012

Naming the Antibiotics: Some Intriguing Facts

An entertaining and brief but fully documented review of the methods by which discoverers of antibiotics have chosen names for them is given by D. Perlman of the School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin.  Antibiotics named after Organisms:  Some of the best known, and a total of about 500, have names derived from...

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