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Antibiotics After World War 2 Essay

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Antibiotics revolutionized in medicine and research, providing treatment of different infections that were before fatal. For more than 50 years they have been used to improve both human and animal health since and during the antibiotic golden age and post-antibiotic golden age (Livermore, 2004).
The discovery of antibiotics after World War II was revolutionary for science and medicine in general. The broad availability of penicillin during the 1940's gave hope that modern medicine had „conquered“ most human pathogens. However, during the 1960's half of the isolated strains were resistant to antibiotics. In this period a methicillin was available for therapy, but resistance to methicillin appeared already in 1996, when more than a third of the

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