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Original Fellows of the Royal Society
1660-Today The Royal Society AKA The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
Foreign members of the Royal Society
Gerhard Domagk
Sulfonamide (medicine)
Sulfa-resistant organisms
Parents
Antibiotic resistance
Sulfonamide (medicine)
Children
1937-1945 and 1960s Although sulfa drugs, which were discovered in 1937, were effective as therapy and prophylaxis for meningococcal disease, reports of sulfa-resistant organisms were already emerging by 1945,...
An epidemic of group B meningococcal disease in 1964 at Fort Ord, California, in which 50% of the civilian strains were sulfa-resistant and the subsequent report by naval investigators of a Moroccan epidemic of sulfa-resistant group A meningococci48...
The problem of the rapid emergence of sulfa resistance (and later rifampin resistance) led experts in the field to the belief that a meningococcal vaccine represented the best hope for long-term control of the problem in military populations.