Magic Bullets & immunology
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- Created on: 06-06-18 06:17
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- Magic bullet & immunology
- 2nd half of 19 century study of bacteria becoming more widespread
- Continued in 20th century
- Specific bacteria were found to be the causes of different diseases & infections
- Vaccines developed to prevent people catching them
- Successful in prevent illness but no cures developed
- late 1800s public health measures introduced
- Stop spread of diseases
- late 1800s public health measures introduced
- late 1800s public health measures introduced
- Stop spread of diseases
- Paul Ehrlich
- German physician
- Scientist
- 1st to find a way of killing germs in bodies
- Developed concept of magic bullet
- Post studying how antibodies seek out specific germs in body & kill them
- Hoped to create a compound target & destroy germs
- Post studying how antibodies seek out specific germs in body & kill them
- 1909 developed Salvarsan 606
- Destroyed bacteria that caused syphilis
- Test participants could recover when they used the drug
- 1910 widely distributed
- Painful to administer
- Could kill patient if in wrong dose
- Wasn't soluble
- Didn't work quickly
- 1911 Neosalvarson released
- Addressed many side effects
- Destroyed bacteria that caused syphilis
- 1932 another germ fighting compound discovered
- Gerhard Domagk discovered the dye Prontosil's properties
- Able to kill the bacteria causing blood poisoning, Meningitis, flesh-eating infection, bacterial pneumonia & many more
- 1st new drug of the class Suphonamides
- ineffective against stronger germs like Staphylococcus
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- ineffective against stronger germs like Staphylococcus
- Gerhard Domagk discovered the dye Prontosil's properties
- 2nd half of 19 century study of bacteria becoming more widespread
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