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Soil From Venezuela Spurs Breakthrough Drug Chloromycetin
Yale researcher Dr. Burkholder isolated a soil organism from a Caracas field that yielded chloromycetin, a potent drug effective against epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, typhoid, and potentially other germs. Army and Parke Davis teams expanded tests, with successes in Bolivia Mexico and Malaya against typhus and scrub typhus.
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Washington
Yale
Paul Burkholder
Venezuela
Caracas
Burkholder
Britain
New Brunswick
N. J
Davis and Company
Detroit
South America
Illinois
Illinois Agriculae
Urana
Parke, Davis
John Ehrlich
Quentin R. Bartz
Army Medical Center
Joseph E. Smadel
Department of Virus and Rickettsial Diseases
Parke
Davis
Eugene Payne
Bolivia
Payne
Mexico
Smadel
Malaya