PENICILLIN

Teresa Torre De Silva Delclaux

 WHO INVENTED PENICILLIN?

“ One sometimes finds what one is not looking for”

Alexander Fleming
WHEN WAS PENICILLIN DISCOVERED?

vLondon, September 1928

vExamining some colonies
vMold called Penicillium notatum
v1946 Available in the UK
vPenicillins were the first antibiotic that
doctors used.
v
WHY THIS DISCOVERY WAS NEEDED?

vThroat infections
vMeninginitis
vEye infection
vPheunomia
 THE IMPACT IT HAS HAD

v Save in War World 11 a lot of people

v Led to the creation to over a houndred other antibiotics
v On March 14, 1942, U.S.