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Hospitals were full of people with blood poisoning contracted from a cut or a scratch, and doctors could do little for them but wait and hope.Īntibiotics are compounds produced by bacteria and fungi which are capable of killing, or inhibiting, competing microbial species. Before its introduction there was no effective treatment for infections such as pneumonia, gonorrhea or rheumatic fever. Penicillin heralded the dawn of the antibiotic age. Landmark Designation and AcknowledgmentsĪlexander Fleming’s Discovery of Penicillin.Penicillin, WWII and Commercial Production.Pharmaceutical Companies Support Production Penicillin Production in the United States during WWII.

Penicillin Research at Oxford University.

Alexander Fleming’s Discovery of Penicillin.

The discovery of penicillin and the initial recognition of its therapeutic potential occurred in the United Kingdom, but, due to World War II, the United States played the major role in developing large-scale production of the drug, thus making a life-saving substance in limited supply into a widely available medicine.

The introduction of penicillin in the 1940s, which began the era of antibiotics, has been recognized as one of the greatest advances in therapeutic medicine. Squibb & Sons (now Bristol-Myers Squibb Company).Įn español: Descubrimiento y desarrollo de la penicilina Department of Agriculture National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Ill., and the five American pharmaceutical companies that contributed to penicillin production research during WWII: Abbott Laboratories, Lederle Laboratories (now Pfizer, Inc.), Merck & Co., Inc., Chas. Designated November 19, 1999, at the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum in London, U.K.