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Louis Pasteur discovered that most infectious diseases are caused by germs, known as the "germ theory of disease," it is one of the most important discoveries in medical history.
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It was realised that infection could be better avoided by preventing bacteria from getting into wounds. This led to the rise of sterile surgery.Lister is considered "the father of modern antisepsis practices in surgery” because of his success of bringing sterilisation into this area of medicine
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His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme and the antibiotic substance penicillin.
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Researched into organic substances largely into organisms that live in soil and their decomposition promoted the discovery of Streptomycin,
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The first to make an effective medication that they called pyocyanase from microbes. It was the first antibiotic to be used in hospitals.
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German pathologist and bacteriologist credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine the first commercially available antibiotic.
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Florey and Chain turned their department at Oxford into a penicillin factory. Trials of penicillin were held at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and were successful.
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Inventor of Tetracycline. For this invention. Conover was the first to make an antibiotic by chemically modifying a naturally produced drug.
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans
