But as Sir Alexander long ago predicted, another mold-produced antibiotic—streptomycin (TIME, Jan. 29)—has given promise of succeeding where penicillin fails. Recent encouraging news of ...

Because of fever, treatment with 40,000,000 units of penicillin G and 1 gm. of streptomycin parenterally per day was started on February 16. Coma and Cheyne–Stokes respiration appeared the next day.

The custodian of the nation's meager supply of streptomycin was on the hot seat. To Boston's Dr. Chester S. Keefer* it seemed that everyone wanted the powerful new drug—foreign nations; ...

The organism was not killed in vitro by penicillin (20 units per cc), streptomycin (20 microgm. per cc), chloramphenicol (50 microgm. per cc), aureomycin (50 microgm. per cc.) or terramycin (20 ...

Discover how a moldy cantaloupe helped mass-produce Fleming’s penicillin, revolutionizing modern medicine. Discover how a moldy cantaloupe helped mass ... of antibiotic discovery. 12 Selman Waksman’s ...

Penicillin is the most commonly recommended therapy for group A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis. Although group A streptococcus has not developed resistance, antibiotic therapy fails to eradicate ...