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Penicillin
Penicillin (sometimes abbreviated PCN or pen) is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi. Penicillin antibiotics are historically significant because they are the first drugs that were effective against many previously serious diseases such as syphilis and Staphylococcus infections....
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| 1945 | "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases" | Ernst Boris Chain | |||||
| Howard Walter Florey | |||||||
| Alexander Fleming | |||||||