Salvarsan is arsenic containing drug which was first used for the treatment of.________.

Options

A. syphilis
B. typhoid
C. meningitis
D. dysentry

Answer

A

Explanation

Syphills is an acute and chronic infections disease caused by the bacterium treponaema pallidum, it is a sexually transmitted infection. The primary route of transmission is through sexual contact but it may also be transmitted from mother to foetus during pregnancy or at birth.
Paul Ehrlich investigated arsenic based structure in order to produce less toxic substances for the treatement of syphillis as he got Nobel prize for medicine in `1908` for this discovery. Salvarsan was the first effective medicine discovered for syphilis. Although salversan is toxic to human beings its effect on bacteria is much greater than on human being. Strucutre of salvarsan is -