Lloyd Conover invented the antibiotic tetracycline and has probably saved a billion lives from early demise.
For example, tetracycline, which is used to treat respiratory infections, is also common in farming.
When the researchers tried the same trick with tetracycline, a commonly prescribed antibiotic, they got similar results.
But in Britain, tetracycline-resistant salmonella has risen from 15% in the early 1970s to over 80% today.
They included streptomycin, tetracycline and erythromycin, antibiotics still in use today, though they easily get outflanked by resistant bacterial strains.
She is now in the next phase with these promising few, comparing their effectiveness with a known antibiotic like tetracycline.
Now, many medical professionals, who have extensively studied the bacterium, are saying that penicillin and tetracycline are effective against anthrax.
But, then again, the amount of tetracycline given to animals outweighs literally all of the antibiotics taken by people.
Tetracycline stored at body temperature lost 80% of its potency after four weeks in ordinary solution, but lost none when stored in silk films.
They already have contributed to the development of the antibiotics erythromycin and tetracycline, the cancer chemotherapy drug doxorubicin, Wyeth's transplant drug Rapamune, and Merck's cholesterol-lowering medicine, Mevacor.
Tetracycline is an example of a bacteriostatic agent.
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They discovered that the most closely related parasite to the Onchocerca volvulus worm - the O. ochengi nematode - died after the bacteria living in it were killed by an ordinary antibiotic treatment of tetracycline.
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