Without any real understanding of how sulfa-drugs overcome infections, doctors have been freely using them ever since Dr. Gerhard Domagk of Germany discovered prontosil, forerunner of ...

The Canadian researchers found that the antibiotics that were most likely to ilicit this reaction were cephalosporins and sulfonamides - or 'sulfa drugs'. As well as penicillin, cephalosporins ...

The preferred treatment first was sulfa drugs; when Shigella strains showed resistance to them, medical people turned to newer antibiotics, such as streptomycin and tetracycline. What exactly was ...

Doctors are keenly aware that the antibiotics (sulfa drugs, penicillin, streptomycin, etc.) have two great dangers: 1) sometimes the drug has a poisonous effect on the patient, and 2) the bacteria ...

Review the side-effects of Triple Sulfa as documented in medical literature. The term "side effects" refers to unintended effects that can occur as a result of taking the medication. In majority ...