MCQ
The term antibiotic was coined by:
  • A
    Alexander Fleming
  • B
    S. Waksman
  • C
    Louis Pasteur
  • D
    Edward Jenner

Answer

  1. S. Waksman

Explanation:

Antibiotics is discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. But in 1943, American microbiologist Selman Waksman (1888–1973) made the drug streptomycin from soil bacteria, the first of a new class of drugs called aminoglycosides. 

The term 'antibiotic' was coined by Waksman to describe a substance derived from naturally occurring microorganisms and possessing antimicrobial activity in high dilution.

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