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1 Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Southwestern Medical College, Dallas, Texas
Certain dithiocarbamates were found to possess antibacterial activity. Certain bismuth derivatives were much more active than the parent compounds. Bismuth diethyldithiocarbamate was capable of protecting mice against an otherwise fatal infection caused by pneumococci (type 1).
Submitted on April 13, 1948