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The basic concept of chemotherapy is the production of a drug which interferes with the growth, multiplication and survival of an infecting micro-organism, while at the same time producing little or no ill effects to the host. Since the development of the sulphonamides in the 1930s and subsequently, from the 1940s onwards of the antibiotics, there have been many drugs developed which are capable of exerting chemotherapeutic activity in a patient infected by a susceptible micro-organism (Kucers and Bennett, 1975).
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Ball, A.P., Gray, J.A., Murdoch, J.M. (1978). Antibacterial Drugs Today. In: Antibacterial Drugs Today. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8004-7_1
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