MCQ
The term antibiotic was coined by:
- AAlexander Fleming
- BS. Waksman
- CLouis Pasteur
- DEdward Jenner
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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