Vorlage:Drugbox Promin, or sodium glucosulfone is a sulfonamide drug that was investigated for the treatment of malaria[1], tuberculosis[2] and leprosy[3].
Promin was first synthesised in 1908 by Emil Fromm, professor of chemistry at Albert-Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Its anti strepococcal activity was investigated by Gladstone Buttle at Burroughs Wellcome and Ernest Fourneau at the Institut Pasteur.
References
- ↑ Leo B. Slater: War and disease: biomedical research on malaria in the twentieth century. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J 2009, ISBN 0-8135-4438-6, S. 102.
- ↑ Dr David Lilienfeld; Prof Dona Schneider: Public Health: The Development of a Discipline, Volume 2, Twentieth-Century Challenges, vol. 2. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J 2011, ISBN 0-8135-5009-2, S. 351.
- ↑ Faget GH, et al. (1943) The Promin Treatment of Leprosy, Public Health Report 58:1729-1741, (Reprint Int J Lepr 34(3), 298-310, 1966)