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Ernest Duchesne (30 May 1874 – 12 April 1912) was a French physician who noted that certain molds kill bacteria. He made this discovery 32 years before Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin, a substance derived from those molds, but his research went unnoticed.
Jan 3, 2020 · Thirty years before Fleming’s discovery, Ernest Duchesne had extracted the chemical from mold that he used to cure bacterial infections.
On Dec 17, 1897, Ernest Duchesne (figure), a 23-year-old medical student, presented and defended his thesis entitled Contribution to the study of vital competition between microorganisms: antagonism between moulds and microbes1 at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Lyon, France.
- Serge Duckett
- 1999
May 10, 2019 · In the late 1800s, French physician Ernest Duchesne observed Arab stable boys treating sores with mold growing on saddles. Duchesne took a sample of the fungus, identified it as Penicillium and used it to cure guinea pigs infected with typhoid.
- Bridget Alex
Ernest Duchesne, né le 30 mai 1874 à Paris 13 e [1] et mort le 12 avril 1912 à Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda, est un médecin français qui découvrit que certaines moisissures pouvaient neutraliser la prolifération de bactéries.
- 30 mai 1874Paris
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Ernest Duchesne (1874-1912) completed his thesis on microbial antagonism in 1897 in Lyon. His work lay unknown for fifty years, but on being brought to light led to his being credited with having discovered penicillin prior to Alexander Fleming.
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Jun 16, 2009 · Ernest Duchesne was posthumously honored in 1949, five years after Sir Fleming had received a Nobel Prize for his re-discovery of the antibiotic effect of penicillin. He discovered this effect actually incidentally when a piece of food was dropped into a Petri dish.
