The discovery at Rutgers on October 19, 1943, showed the potential of soil microorganisms to produce life saving medicines and helped open a new chapter in the fight against infectious disease.

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Today, I want to introduce tonl you Elizabeth Bugie Gregory, the woman who discovered, together Albert Schatz and Salman Waksman the streptomycin the first antibiotic active against Mycobacterium tubercolosis.

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