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Streptomyces aureofaciens / Streptomyces rimosus / Oxytetracycline / Chlortetracycline / Streptomyces / Benjamin Minge Duggar / Antimicrobial / Lloyd Conover / Tigecycline / Tetracycline antibiotics / Medicine / Tetracycline


H isto ry of Te tr ac yc l i n es The tetracycline class of antibiotics comprises a distinct family of substituted hydronaphthalene compounds produced by strains of Streptomyces aureofaciens and Streptomyces rimosus. The first member of the group to be discovered was chlorotetracycline (Aureomycin) in the late 1940s by Dr. Benjamin
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Document Date: 2013-12-09 12:08:13


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Pfizer / Lederle Laboratories / /

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natural products / synthetic product / /

MedicalCondition

infections / /

MedicalTreatment

antibiotics / /

Organization

U.S. Food & Drug Administration / /

Person

Benjamin Duggar / Robert B. Woodward / Lloyd H. Conover / /

Position

scientist / /

Product

Aureomycin / Tygacil / Terramycin / /

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