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    Prontosil is an antibacterial drug of the sulfonamide group. It has a relatively broad effect against gram-positive cocci but not against enterobacteria...
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    first commercially available antibiotic and marketed under the brand name Prontosil. While working in the pathology department of the University of Münster...
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    in medicine. The first sulfonamide, trade-named Prontosil, was a prodrug. Experiments with Prontosil began in 1932 in the laboratories of Bayer AG, at...
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    patented in 1909. Gerhard Domagk, who directed the testing of the prodrug Prontosil in 1935, and Jacques Tréfouël and Thérèse Tréfouël, who along with Federico...
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    Gerhard Domagk in 1939 "for the discovery of the antibacterial effects of prontosil". In the 1920s, the company had ties to the liberal German People's Party...
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    compounds available from the German dye industry, led to the development of Prontosil, the first representative of the sulfonamide class of antibiotics. Compared...
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    first systemically active antibacterial drug, forerunner of antibiotics, Prontosil, was developed by a research team led by Gerhard Domagk in 1932 or 1933...
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    first sulfonamide and the first systemically active antibacterial drug, Prontosil, was developed by a research team led by Gerhard Domagk in 1932 or 1933...
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    developed life-threatening complications. His successful treatment with Prontosil, the first commercially available sulfonamide drug, avoided a risky surgical...
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    BASF Bayer Sanofi Products Synthetic dyes Nitrile rubber Polyurethane Prontosil Resochin Zyklon B People Other American IG Buna Werke IG Farben Building...
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