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The first miracle drugs : how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine /

In the decade from 1935-1945, while the Second World War raged in Europe, a new class of medicines capable of controlling bacterial infections launched a therapeutic revolution that continues today. The new medicines were not penicillin and antibiotics, but sulfonamides, or sulfa drugs. The sulfa dr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lesch, John E., 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Beginnings
  • A system of invention
  • Prontosil
  • Into the maelstrom
  • Accommodation and survival
  • Pathways of recognition
  • M & B 693
  • Acclaim and expansion
  • At war
  • Trial by fire
  • A mechanism revealed
  • The sulfa drugs and twentieth-century medicine.