All patients treated with streptomycin were hospitalized at the Massachusetts General Hospital or the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. ¶ They were selected on the basis of the infecting ...

Overview: Streptomycin is an antibiotic that is injected into a muscle by a health care professional to treat certain bacterial infections. Serious side effects may include hearing loss ...

In the course of studies on the development of streptomycin resistance by meningococci during subcultures on streptomycin-containing culture plates, Miller and Bohnhoff 1, 2 observed the ...

1943: __A biochemistry grad student discovers streptomycin, a synthetic antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. Sole credit for the discovery initially went to Selman ...

The custodian of the nation’s meager supply of streptomycin was on the hot seat. To Boston’s Dr. Chester S. Keefer* it seemed that everyone wanted the powerful new drug—foreign nations ...

What has alarmed environmentalists, public health advocates and farmworker groups alike is the EPA’s approval of the broad-spectrum antibiotic streptomycin to fight citrus greening and canker ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency didn’t follow the law when it approved spraying the antibiotic streptomycin on citrus crops to control devastating diseases like citrus greening ...

A coalition of environmental and farmworker groups is suing the US Environmental Protection Agency for allowing use of the medically important antibiotic streptomycin on citrus. The groups are ...