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Bacteria fighter
Answer for the clue "Bacteria fighter ", 5 letters:
sulfa
Alternative clues for the word sulfa
- Certain bacteria-fighting drug
- Synthetic antibiotic
- Antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA
- ___ drug (infection fighter)
- Infection fighter
- Kind of drug
- Antibacterial drug, informally
- Bacteria-inhibiting drug
- ___ drugs (early antibiotics)
Usage examples of sulfa.
Larch was at the railroad station, personally accusing the stationmaster of losing an expected delivery of sulfa, a woman arrived at the hospital entrance, bent double with cramps and bleeding.
Without some kind of stainless steel no sulfa drugs for infections, no DDT, no chloramphenicol to cure diseases like typhoid and typhus.
All in favor of my proposal to send our existing stock of chloramphenicol and most of our sulfa drugs to Luebeck and Amsterdam, along with as much DDT as we can manage, raise your hands.
They believed that the substance, according to what they had heard, was even more magical than the group of sulfa drugs which has been developed the last few years.
He smeared damp sulfa on the wound, bandaged it up again, and covered Wallace with a more-or-less dry blanket.
Wallace looked like an Old Master painting: wounded soldier, with pack, Bren, Schmeisser, grenades and sulfa powder.
They cleaned Esther up, removed the plain gauze packing and replaced it with sulfa ointment and more gauze.
Get home, wash this mess up, get proper bandages on it, maybe some sulfa powder, and then have a little session with Mr.
It presides over the development of radar and sonar, mass-produced sulfa drugs and penicillin, mechanical computing, and the atomic bomb.
Sam sprinkled sulfa on the bullet wounds, then slapped on self-adhesive bandages.
I put the sulfa back in my saddlebags, but I could not tear myself away from the scene.
The other began with a violent sore throat, but yielded so quickly to sulfa pills that no one really knew its full course.
As long as there were sulfa pills in any drug store and they kept potent in spite of age, Ish saw no need to find out experimentally just how this sore throat would develop, if left untreated.
The other four were all elderly persons in whom neither the sulfas nor the mycetes had been able to check the progress of pneumonia.