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Propamidine

An antiseptic of the aromatic diamidine family, synthesised in the United Kingdom in the late 1930s: today it is used mainly in eye drops, including against Acanthamoeba eye infections. This family brings together other impurities.

Did you know?It was born in 1939 as a weapon against trypanosomes, the parasites of sleeping sickness; almost fifty years later, in 1985, it helped achieve the first medical cure of Acanthamoeba keratitis, an infection of the cornea.