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The concept of antibacterial chemotherapy goes back to the discovery of the sulfa drugs in the 1930’s. This concept, however, was definitely established only when the first cures were achieved by penicillin in 1941. Penicillin opened the antibiotic era in which we are living now.
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Ghuysen, JM. (1987). β-Lactam Antibiotics as Carbonyl Donors of the Active-Site Serine β-Lacta-Mases, DD-Peptidases and LL-Peptidases. In: De Clercq, E. (eds) Frontiers in Microbiology. New Perspectives in Clinical Microbiology, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3353-8_2
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