Penicillin

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Today, most commercial varieties of this antibiotic are produced by the mold p. chrysogenum Penicillin $400 DJ MEDICINE 1998-12-03 #3279
This antibiotic discovered by Fleming in 1928 was isolated & purified by Ernst Chain & Howard Florey Penicillin $200 DJ SICKNESS & HEALTH 1998-09-28 #3231
Discovered in 1928, it kills gonococci, meningococci & streptococci Penicillin DD $1,000 DJ HEALTH & MEDICINE 1997-01-17 #2855
Discovered in 1928, it was the first antibiotic penicillin $200 DJ SICKNESS & HEALTH 1992-11-06 #1880
Ampicillin is a semisynthetic form of this other antibiotic penicillin $100 J HEALTH & MEDICINE 1991-12-27 #1690
Though Fleming discovered this 1st modern antibiotic in 1928, his Nobel Prize for it came in 1945 penicillin $200 J MEDICINE 1986-09-23 #467
Since there was too little to test, this drug of Fleming's sat "undiscovered" for 12 years penicillin $800 DJ SICKNESS & HEALTH 1986-05-14 #438
U.S. mass production of this drug became possible by discovery of a mold on cantaloupe penicillin $600 DJ MEDICINE 1985-12-12 #329
Miracle drug accidentally discovered in Alexander Fleming's Petri dish penicillin $1,000 DJ MEDICINE 1984-09-17 #6
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