In 1940, Australian scientist Howard Florey (later Baron Florey) and a team of researchers ( Ernst Chain, Edward Abraham, Arthur Duncan Gardner, Norman Heatley, Margaret Jennings, Jean Orr-Ewing and Arthur Gordon Sanders) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford made progress in making concentrated penicillin from fungal culture broth. In 1930, Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Royal Infirmary in Sheffield, successfully treated ophthalmia neonatorum, an infection in infants, with penicillin (fungal extract) on November 25, 1930. Howard Florey (pictured), Alexander Fleming and Ernst Chain shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 for their work on penicillin. They are now used regularly in hospitals. Because it is such a popular antibiotic, penicillin is the most common cause of serious allergic reactions to a drug.
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Rarely, patients who are allergic to penicillin get a fever, vomit, or have serious skin irritation.
Symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, or rash. Together with another scientist Ernest Boris Chain, Fleming and Florey were given the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945. Australian scientist Howard Walter Florey made the penicillin mould into a medicine. Penicillin was discovered when Fleming noticed a mould that was stopping bacteria from growing in a petri dish. It was first used widely during World War II. Penicillin is sometimes used to treat tonsillitis, meningitis, and pneumonia as well as other diseases. There is now a whole group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium: penicillin G, procaine penicillin, benzathine penicillin, and penicillin V. The antibiotic is naturally produced by fungi of the genus Penicillium. Penicillin was discovered by Scottish scientist Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928, but it was not mass-produced until the 1940s.
Chemists keep changing part of its structure in the effort to keep it working against the bacteria. Many strains of baceria are now resistant. It was one of the first to be discovered, and worked well against staphylococci and streptococci. Penicillin is a common antibiotic, used to treat bacterial infections. Certain molds naturally produce Penicilin.
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