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The discovery of penicillin was one of the most important scientific discoveries in the history of medicine. Ancient societies used moulds to treat infections and in the following centuries many people observed the inhibition of bacterial growth by moulds. While working at St Mary's Hospital in London in 1928, Scottish physician Alexander ...
Apr 14, 2017 · Penicillin was isolated from other microorganisms, which led to a new term, antibiotics. Using similar discovery and production techniques, researchers discovered many other antibiotics in the 1940s and 1950s: streptomycin, chloramphenicol, erythromycin, vancomycin, and others.
The history of penicillin follows observations and discoveries of evidence of antibiotic activity of the mould Penicillium that led to the development of penicillins that became the first widely used antibiotics. Following the production of a relatively pure compound in 1942, penicillin was the first naturally-derived antibiotic.
Mar 29, 2017 · Interestingly, in February 2017 the European Commission for Research and Innovation awarded the 1 million euro Horizon Prize for “better use of antibiotics” to the company Minicare HNL . The machine designed by Minicare HNL can perform a finger prick test to determine in a few minutes whether the patient has a bacterial or viral infection ...
- Mariya Lobanovska, Giulia Pilla
- Yale J Biol Med. 2017 Mar; 90(1): 135-145.
- 2017
- 2017/03
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The discovery of penicillin and the initial recognition of its therapeutic potential occurred in the United Kingdom, but, due to World War II, the United States played the major role in developing large-scale production of the drug, thus making a life-saving substance in limited supply into a widely available medicine.
