Waksman nevashandi vake vekutsvakurudza vakawana maantibayoti akawanda, kusanganisira actinomycin, clavacin, streptothricin, streptomycin, grisein, neomycin, fradicin, candicidin, uye candidin. Pakati peizvi, streptomycin uye neomycin yakawana kushandiswa kwakakura mukurapa kwezvirwere zvakawanda zvinotapukira. Streptomycin ndiyo yaive yekutanga inorapa inorapa inorapa tuberculosis (TB). Muna 1952 Waksman akawana mubairo weNobel muPhysiology kana Mushonga mukucherechedzwa kwe "kuwanikwa kwake kwe streptomycin, yekutanga inorwisa tuberculosis".
Muna 1943