Tag: Antibiotic history

Discovered in 1945 from a soil mold, Aureomycin was the very first tetracycline antibiotic identified [1.7.4, 1.3.1]. To answer the question, **is Aureomycin an antibiotic?**—yes, it is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that revolutionized the treatment of numerous bacterial infections [1.7.2].

Originally hailed as a revolutionary antibiotic in the 1940s, sulfathiazole was once widely used to combat a range of serious infections, from gonorrhea to pneumonia. The drug’s high toxicity, however, eventually led to its retirement for widespread systemic human use. What does sulfathiazole help with today, and why is its application so different from its past?