Archive footage of Sir Alexander Fleming demonstrating how he discovered the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin. Fleming discovered the Staphylococcus bacterium could not grow near the ...

Nine species (240 strains) of gram-negative bacilli were studied; 221 were freshly isolated from the urinary and intestinal tracts, wounds and abscesses. Thirteen strains of salmonella and 6 of ...

Fleming presented his findings in 1929, but they raised little interest. He published a report on penicillin and its potential uses in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. Fleming worked ...

Chain, E., Florey, H. W., Gardner, A. D., Heatley, N. G., Jennings, M. A., and Orr-Ewing, J., Sanders, A. G., Lancet, ii, 226 (1940). Abraham, E. P., Chain, E ...

Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long road to penicillin as a life-saving drug. Hannah joined The Scientist as ...

Medically reviewed by Alex Yampolsky, PharmD Amoxicillin and penicillin (also known as penicillin V potassium or penicillin G) are widely prescribed antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections ...

in which discrepancies were observed between chemical and biological methods of penicillin assay when a precursor was omitted from penicillin fermentations.

This study of the comparative efficacy of tetracycline and penicillin in the treatment of alternate cases of pneumococcal pneumonia was therefore undertaken. The study comprised all patients with ...

Immunocompromised patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCTs) who have a reported penicillin allergy should be evaluated as the allergy label limits access to preferred antibiotics ...