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Era of Antibiotic Discovery

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Pre-antibiotic era was horribly threatened by deadly microbes. The therapeutic procedures were very painful at that time, and people had no option to get relief from infectious microbes. Fortunately, the field of medicine has been improved in the nineteenth century, and the occurrence of infectious diseases get limited. Apart from this, the discovery of antibiotic replaced the ancient medical practices and brought a hope of better life. Herein, in this chapter we have discussed about the history of medicine, discovery of antibiotics, and present scenario of medicine.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Sadhana Sagar

  2. Department of Microbiology, Chhatrapati Sahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Shilpa Kaistha

  3. Department of Environmental Microbiology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Amar Jyoti Das & Rajesh Kumar

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Sagar, S., Kaistha, S., Das, A.J., Kumar, R. (2019). Era of Antibiotic Discovery. In: Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria: A Challenge to Modern Medicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9879-7_1

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