Ephraim Saul "Andy" Anderson,CBE,FRS (28 October 1911 – 14 March 2006) was a Britishbacteriologist, best known for his work highlighting the human health dangers ofdrug-resistant bacteria created byantibiotics, in particular by low-dose antibiotic use in animal feeding.
Anderson was born of Estonian-Jewish immigrants in a working-class area ofNewcastle upon Tyne, and educated at Rutherford College before winning a scholarship to attendDurham University's Medical School.[1] He served in theRoyal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War. Anderson won worldwide recognition for his work on theplasmids that render the bacteria responsible for typhoid fever and bacterial food poisoning insensitive to antibiotics. Anderson was director of theEnteric Reference Laboratory of thePublic Health Laboratory Service, between 1954 and 1978. He was made a fellow of theRoyal Society in 1968 and appointed a CBE in 1976.[2] He died in London at the age of 94.[3]
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