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Antimicrobial Chapter 20: Medications Questions & Answers Paul Ehrlich - ANS-A German physician and bacteriologist. Observed that certain dyes stain bacterial cells but not animal cells, leading him to search for a "magic bullet" that would kill a microbial pathogen without harming the human host. They tested arsenic that could help treat syphilis caused by Treponema pallidum, developed salvarsan. Ehrlich's discovery proved that some chemicals could selectively kill microbes. This was ...

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