Tetracyclines

 

Missouri, USA 

Aureomycin Discovery (1945–1948)

 

• In 1945, soil samples collected from Sanborn Field at the University of Missouri, Columbia, were sent to Lederle Laboratories, a division of American Cyanamid.

University Of Missouri

• Researcher Benjamin Minge Duggar, a plant physiologist, isolated a soil bacterium Streptomyces aureofaciens from the Missouri soil sample.

 

• This organism produced a yellow-colored antibiotic, later named Aureomycin, the first tetracycline-class antibiotic.

Theory To Practice 

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