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Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur discovered that most infectious diseases are caused by germs, known as the "germ theory of disease," it is one of the most important discoveries in medical history. -
Joseph Lister
It was realised that infection could be better avoided by preventing bacteria from getting into wounds. This led to the rise of sterile surgery.Lister is considered "the father of modern antisepsis practices in surgery” because of his success of bringing sterilisation into this area of medicine -
Sir Alexander Fleming
His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme and the antibiotic substance penicillin. -
Selman Waksman
Researched into organic substances largely into organisms that live in soil and their decomposition promoted the discovery of Streptomycin, -
Rudolf Emmerich and Oscar Low
The first to make an effective medication that they called pyocyanase from microbes. It was the first antibiotic to be used in hospitals. -
Gerhard Domagk
German pathologist and bacteriologist credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine the first commercially available antibiotic. -
Howard Florey and Ernst Chain
Florey and Chain turned their department at Oxford into a penicillin factory. Trials of penicillin were held at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and were successful. -
Lloyd Conover
Inventor of Tetracycline. For this invention. Conover was the first to make an antibiotic by chemically modifying a naturally produced drug. -
1st “bug” to become resistant to penicillin
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans
