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Discovery that mould can kill different bacteria
Alexander Fleming looked petri dishes which had colonies of Staphylococcus and found one where a dot of mould was growing. He discovered that mould was able to kill different types of bacteria. -
Fleming published his discovery
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Howard Florey, Ernst Chain turned penicillin into medicine
Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and workers from the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology turned penicillin into a medicine to save lives through processing almost 500L of mould filtrate each week. -
Heatley got penicillin from filtrate to amyl acetate to water.
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Edward Abraham used technique to remove pollutants from penicillin.
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Florey showed penicillin protected mice from Streptococci
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Albert Alexander, first person to use pencillin
Albert Alexander was the first person to use penicillin after scratching his mouth while pruning a rose bush which caused a deadly infection. He was improving after a few days but penicillin ran out and he died afterwards. -
Florey & Heatley visited US to offer API to produce penicillin
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Moyer increased penicillin production, lactose as sucrose
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Moyer found corn-steep liquor produced more penicillin.
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WPB increased production of penicillin
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21 billion units of penicillin made in the US
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1663 billion units of penicillin made in the US
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6.8 trillion units of penicillin made in the US
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Penicillin distributed to pharmacies in US
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Penicillin sold as prescription only drug in the UK
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133229 billion units of penicillin made in the US