Antibiotics—From There to Where?

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David M. Shlaes
Patricia A. Bradford

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To fully appreciate the importance of antibiotics to everyday life, we must step back to the edge of the pre-antibiotic era when these lifesaving drugs were first introduced into clinical use.

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