Timeline of antibiotics
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| Time period | Development summary | More details |
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| 1932 | German pathologist Gerhard Domagk develops prontosil, the first sulphonamide microbial.[1][2][3] | Germany | |
| 1942 | Penicillin is introduced.[3] | ||
| 1943 | Streptomycin is introduced. It is the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.[4][5][6][3] | ||
| 1945 | Antibiotic cephalosporins is discovered.[3] | ||
| 1947 | Antibiotic chloramphenicol is discovered.[3] | ||
| 1947 | Antibiotic chlortetracycline is discovered.[3] | ||
| 1949 | Antibiotic neomycin is discovered.[3] | ||
| 1952 | Antibiotic erythromycin is discovered.[3] | ||
| 1956 | Antibiotic vancomycin is introduced into clinical use.[3][7] | ||
| 1960 | Antibiotic flucloxacillin is introduced.[3] | ||
| 1961 | Antibiotic ampicillin is introduced.[3] | ||
| 1963 | Antibiotic gentamicin is discovered.[3] | ||
| 1964 | Antibiotic cephalosporins is introduced.[3] | ||
| 1964 | Antibiotic vancomycin is introduced.[3] | ||
| 1966 | Antibiotic doxycycline is introduced.[3] | ||
| 1971 | Antibiotic rifampicin is introduced.[3] | ||
| 1974 | Antibiotic co-trimoxazole is introduced.[3] | ||
| 1976 | Antibiotic amikacin is introduced.[3] | ||
| 1984 | Antibiotic ampicillin/clavulanate is introduced.[3] | ||
| 1987 | Antibiotic imipenem/cilastin is introduced.[3] | ||
| 1987 | Antibiotic ciprofloxacin is introduced.[3] | ||
| 1993 | Antibiotics azithromycin and clarithromycin are introduced.[3] | ||
| 1999 | Antibiotic quinupristin/dalfopristin is introduced.[3] | ||
| 2000 | Antibiotic linezolid is introduced.[3] | ||
| 2003 | Antibiotic daptomycin is introduced.[3] | ||
| 2004 | Antibiotic telithromycin is introduced.[3] | ||
| 2005 | Antibiotic tigecycline is introduced.[3] |
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References
- ↑ Ravina, Enrique. The Evolution of Drug Discovery: From Traditional Medicines to Modern Drugs.
- ↑ Savona-Ventura, Charles. Contemporary Medicine in Malta [1798-1979].
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 Torok, Estee; Moran, Ed; Cooke, Fiona. Oxford Handbook of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology.
- ↑ Lorian, Victor. Antibiotics in Laboratory Medicine.
- ↑ Morabia, Alfredo. Enigmas of Health and Disease: How Epidemiology Helps Unravel Scientific Mysteries.
- ↑ Cumo, Christopher Martin. The Ongoing Columbian Exchange: Stories of Biological and Economic Transfer in World History: Stories of Biological and Economic Transfer in World History.
- ↑ Staphylococci in Human Disease (Kent B. Crossley, Kimberly K. Jefferson, Gordon L. Archer, Vance G. Fowler ed.).
