Streptomycin sulfate 1g/vial; lyophilized pwd for IM inj after reconstitution. Give by IM inj into mid-lateral thigh. Alternate injection sites. Tularemia, plague, endocarditis: See literature.

presented a clinical trial opportunity for an anti-tuberculosis drug. Waksman assigned preparation for that task to his graduate students, chiefly Albert Schatz. Schatz soon isolated streptomycin, an ...

The first clinical use of the drug was in 1944, in a young female tuberculosis patient in Minnesota. An initial dose of 0.4 grams per day of streptomycin had almost no effect, but an increased ...