Question 59

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In the 1930s, Gerhard Domagk injected his own daughter with a red dye in hopes of curing her invasive streptococcal infection, even though testing of this agent on agar plates growing Streptococcus sp. showed no antimicrobial effect. Analyze why he did this. What did this study show the importance of?

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Gerhard Domagk was a German physician wh...

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