• DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(99)03162-1
Corpus ID: 206011471

Ernest Duchesne and the concept of fungal antibiotic therapy

@article{Duckett1999ErnestDA,
  title={Ernest Duchesne and the concept of fungal antibiotic therapy},
  author={S. Duckett},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={1999},
  volume={354},
  pages={2068-2071}
}

S. Duckett

Published 1999

Medicine

The Lancet

On Dec 17, 1897, Ernest Duchesne (figure), a 23-yearold medical student, presented and defended his thesis entitled Contribution to the study of vital competition between microorganisms: antagonism between moulds and microbes at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Lyon, France. He proposed a revolutionary concept, namely that a vital competition for survival occurred between fungi and bacteria, and that this phenomenon could be exploited for therapeutic purposes. Since at least 1500 BC… CONTINUE READING

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