Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long ...

From January to May 1943, only 400 million units of penicillin had been made; by the time the war ended, U.S. companies were making 650 billion units a month.

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The medicinal potential of penicillin was accidentally discovered by the Scottish scientist Alexander Flemming in 1928The chemical structure of penicillin was worked out using X-ray ...

This unassuming object made it possible for the first clinical trials of penicillin to take place. Most people contact the names of Florey and Chain with the story of penicillin, but their team ...

Any patient suffering from an acute streptococcal infection was placed under treatment with penicillin as soon as the diagnosis was made. A control culture was taken just before the first dose of ...