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RefNoHF/1/14/3/2/52
Previous numbers98HF.135.2.52
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TitleLetter from Agustin Arriagada, Santiago, Chile to Howard Walter Florey
Date1 April 1952
DescriptionThanks for reprints on bacitracin - clear that ayfivin (Bacitracin) will never be used for general therapeutics - comments on this - wants to know why name bacitracin has been adopted in place of ayfivin, which he worked on in 944 and called subtilin - discusses this - is sending summary of work on effects of temperature of 42 degrees celsius on tubercle bacilli and on antibiotic activity - wonders if radioactive isotopes might be used in culture media to obtain different kinds of antibacterial substances from bacteria - comments on this.
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