An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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Avermectins, new family of potent anthelminthic agents, efficacy of the B1a component.

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 15, 372-378, 1979.

Campbell and colleagues reported unprecedented antiparasitic effects of the agent in vivo, and that the "B1a" component of the molecule was most effective as a single oral dose.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Egerton, Oslin, Blair....Campbell.) Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

In 2015 William C. Campbell shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Satoshi Ōmura “for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites.” The other half was awarded to Tu Youyou “for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria.”

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Antiparasitic Drugs
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