Anderson, E S

Anderson, E S
▪ 2007

      British microbiologist (b. Oct. 28, 1911, Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.—d. March 14, 2006, London, Eng.), established in the 1960s that bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics through the transfer of plasmids (extrachromosomal DNA molecules) between cells and that these drug-resistant bacteria could decrease the usefulness of antibiotics in fighting infections in humans. Although much of his research was not fully understood or accepted for many years, he was increasingly successful in his efforts to end the indiscriminate use of antibiotics (especially those with human medical applications) in livestock. Anderson studied medicine at the University of Durham and the Postgraduate Medical School of London and spent most of his career (1947–79) at the Public Health Laboratory Services's Enteric Reference Laboratory in London, where he became director in 1954. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1968 and was made CBE in 1976.

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