Undoubtedly, the discovery of penicillin is one of the greatest milestones in modern
medicine. 2016 marks the 75th anniversary of the first systemic administration of penicillin in …

After just over 75 years of penicillin's clinical use, the world can see that its impact was
immediate and profound. In 1928, a chance event in Alexander Fleming's London laboratory …

The principal point of this paper is that the discovery of penicillin and the development of the
supporting technologies in microbiology and chemical engineering leading to its commercial …

Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. It was the first of the antibiotics that, for
decades after the Second World War, underpinned a popular belief that infectious disease …

13ack in the 1940s and 50s, when the first antibiotics such as penicillin began making their
way into clinical use, they were hailed as miracle drugs-and rightly so. By killing the bacteria …

This nation–and in fact the world–is currently facing a crisis in the form of a growing
antibacterial drug resistance. In the 60 or so years since the discovery of penicillin …

Beginning with the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in the late 1920s, antibiotics
have revolutionized the field of medicine. They have saved millions of lives each year …

Publisher Summary Penicillin permanently changed infectious disease research and
therapeutic medicine, it transformed patient expectations and the structures of drug …

Highlights•The antibiotic resistance crisis is jeopardizing feasibility of medical practices.•The
antibiotic resistance crisis is more serious with Gram-negative pathogens.•XDR phenotypes …

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