In 1957, a sample of soil coming from a pine wood on the French Riviera was brought for analysis to the Lepetit Pharmaceuticals research lab in Milan, Italy. There, a research group headed by Prof. Piero Sensi (1920-) discovered a new bacterium. This new species appeared immediately of great scientific interest since it was producing a new class of molecules with antibiotic activity. Because Prof. Sensi and some of his fellow researchers were particularly fond of the French crime story Rififi (about a jewel heist and rival gangs),[3] they decided to call these compounds "Rifamycins". After two years of attempts in order to obtain more stable semi-synthetic products, in 1959 a new molecule with high efficacy and good tolerability was produced and was named "Rifampicin".
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