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Tetracycline: Lloyd Conover
Lloyd Conover

Lloyd Conover invented the antibiotic* tetracycline, which became the most prescribed broad spectrum antibiotic in the United States within three years - National Inventors Hall of Fame.

TETRACYCLINE
Drug reference material for tetracycline.

*ANTIBIOTIC (Gr. anti, "against"; bios, "life"), chemical substance produced by one organism that is destructive to another.

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