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Arsphenamine
Antibiotic drug introduced in the 1910s / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arsphenamine, also known as Salvarsan or compound 606, is an antibiotic drug that was introduced at the beginning of the 1910s as the first effective treatment for the deadly infectious diseases syphilis, relapsing fever, and African trypanosomiasis.[2][3] This organoarsenic compound was the first modern antimicrobial agent.[4]
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