CLINICAL MEDICINE

Detailed explanation-1: -The discovery of penicillin, one of the world’s first antibiotics, marks a true turning point in human history-when doctors finally had a tool that could completely cure their patients of deadly infectious diseases. Many school children can recite the basics. Penicillin was discovered in London in September of 1928.

Detailed explanation-2: -’MOULD JUICE’ He was able to isolate the mould and identified it as a member of the Penicillium genus. He found it to be effective against all Gram-positive pathogens, which are responsible for diseases such as scarlet fever, pneumonia, gonorrhoea, meningitis and diphtheria.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pencillium notatum and Cephalosporium acremonium are two species of fungus, which are used in the production of the antibiotics.

Detailed explanation-4: -For example, penicillin is made by a number of fungi in the genus Penicillium and vancomycin by a bacterium known as Amycolatopsis orientalis, and both are therefore true antibiotics, while ciprofloxacin and linezolid are synthetic products and so are technically antimicrobials.

Detailed explanation-5: -He discovered it when the Penicillium fungus grew over a culture of Staphylococcus bacteria. He isolated the compound that was responsible for this and named it as Penicillin.