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What is the penicillin myth?

In May 2017, a paper was published by Robert P. Gaynes, MD.

Titled The Discovery of Penicillin – New Insights After More Than 75 Years of Clinical Use, it presents a dramatic re-interpretation of the penicillin story. It explains in detail how Governments, pharmaceutical companies, physicians, regulators, universities and other key stakeholders worked together collaboratively to bring penicillin to market.

This is in direct contradiction of the commonly held perception that penicillin, and its role in fighting infection for patients globally, was an accidental finding.

The paper explains that while Alexander Fleming discovered strong evidence that a mould he found in a culture dish on return from holiday was killing bacteria, he lacked the skillset to isolate the active ingredient within the mould.

It took over ten years before a team at Oxford University, headed up by Howard Florey, was able to isolate the active ingredient. They were able to make enough to pr…

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