Tetracycline: The Rise of Pfizer

The history of tetracyclines, including the rise of Lederle-Cyanamid's Aureomycin and Pfizer's Terramycin.

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SOURCES
The Miracle Cure by William Rosen
https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Cure-C...

Actinomycetes: A Never-Ending Source of Bioactive Compounds—An Overview on Antibiotics Production (2021) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Tetracycline antibiotics (2021) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf...
Tetracycline, StatePearls (updated 2023) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...

Antibiotic Discovery and Development (2012) http://cmdr.ubc.ca/bobh/wp-content/up...
The Development of Third-Generation Tetracycline Antibiotics and New Perspectives (2021) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

PIONEER LEADERS IN PLANT PATHOLOGY: BENJAMIN MINGE DUGGAR (1982) https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf...
Dr. Benjamin Duggar Dies at 84 (1956) https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/time...

AUREOMYCIN: A PRODUCT OF THE CONTINUING SEARCH FOR NEW ANTIBIOTICS by Duggar (1948) https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley....
Aureomycin, a New Antibiotic (1949) https://www.nature.com/articles/16315...
Chloramphenicol fact sheet from Pfizer https://labeling.pfizer.com/ShowLabel...
Public Policy: Antitrust & Antibiotics (1961) https://web.archive.org/web/201102050...
U.S. vs Pfizer (1974) https://www.justice.gov/media/1235821...
Tetracycline litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetracy...
Casetext US vs Pfizer (1982) https://casetext.com/case/in-re-coord...

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IMAGES
Wellcome polio vaccine. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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View of Sanborn Field from the adjacent Bond Life Sciences Center on the University of Missouri campus by Lwtwb8 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Rickettsia typhi by David H. Walker (UTMB), George Weinstock (BCM-HGSC)
https://www.hgsc.bcm.edu/rickettsia-t...
Tetracycline HCl substance by Rillke Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
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Streptomyces rimosus, Leibniz-Institut DSMZ. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. (CC-BY 4.0) https://bacdive.dsmz.de/strain/15515
Arthur M Sackler in his office. Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries. CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...
Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. Packaging pills in the finishing department https://www.loc.gov/resource/ds.14946/
Antimicrobial sensitivity testing of Staphylococcus aureus on MHA after over night incubation by Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

VIDEOS
The antibiotics and terramycin https://wellcomecollection.org/works/...
Age of Promise (1956) https://wellcomecollection.org/works/...

⌛T I M E S T A M P S ⌛
0:00 Intro
0:46 Part 1: Pay Dirt
6:52 Part 2: From the Earth
12:20 The Lawsuit
14:52 Part 3: New Generations of Tetracyclines

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