Open AccessAntibiotics: from prehistory to the present day
Author(s) -
Kate Gould
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkv484
Subject(s) - antibiotics , prehistory , trace (psycholinguistics) , antimicrobial , computer science , data science , biology , history , microbiology and biotechnology , archaeology , philosophy , linguistics
Antimicrobials have been in use for many thousands of years in a variety of formats. In this article, I trace how we have moved from ingenious use of agents available in the environment to chemically engineered agents.
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