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The impact that antimicrobial chemotherapy has on society affects every person, for it is unlikely that anybody will live out his or her life without receiving some form of antimicrobial drug therapy. And it is only within the last 40 years that any effective chemotherapy has developed such that few diseases nowadays can be regarded as killers.
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1.3 References and Further Reading
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Edwards, D. (1980). History of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. In: Antimicrobial Drug Action. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16360-1_1
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