streptomycin

The researchers exposed E. coli to streptomycin and kasugamycin, two drugs which treat bacterial infections.

Another study tested its ability to stop bacteria in wounds, and some snail mucus performed better than commercial antibiotics, including amoxicillin and streptomycin.

The collection did generate several historically important drugs through the years, including the tuberculosis antibiotic streptomycin and the organ transplant drug sirolimus.

And streptomycin, developed in 1943, stopped TB cold in most patients.

Life-threatening infection led to the removal of a kidney and his treatment with what was then an experimental antibiotic, streptomycin, initially used to treat tuberculosis.