The intramuscular injection of 1,200,000 units of benzathine penicillin in 40 children convalescent from rheumatic fever was followed by systemic reactions evidenced by fever (12.5 per cent ...

Fleming presented his findings in 1929, but they raised little interest. He published a report on penicillin and its potential uses in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. Fleming worked ...

TETRACYCLINE is a new broad-spectrum antibiotic derived from the catalytic dehydrogenation of chlortetracycline. 1,2 Chemically, it is similar to its analogues chlortetracycline and ...

Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long road to penicillin as a life-saving drug. Hannah joined The Scientist as ...