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Prontosil Rubrum
In 1927
Gerhard Domagk
, a German doctor who had done some pioneering work on phagocytes, was approached a drug company
Bayer
to work on the problem of infectious diseases.
He picked one organism as a target:
Streptococcus pyogenes.
What infections does
Streptococcus pyogenes
cause?
©
MicrobiologyBytes
2007.
In
1927 Gerhard
Domagk, a German doctor who had done some pioneering work on phagocytes, was
approached a drug company Bayer
to work on the problem of infectious diseases.