IN the absence of supplies of penicillin in Hungary during the War, Dr. E. Rosenthal, of St. Roch's Hospital, Budapest, isolated two strains of what appeared to be Penicillium notatum Westling ...
Other factors that allow the spread of antibiotic resistance are poor infection control, inadequate sanitary conditions, and inappropriate food handling. In the absence of proper hygienic conditions, ...
By 1940, the Oxford research group, which also included biochemist Norman Heatley, had determined how to grow the mold and purify the penicillin, and shown that it could save mice from three different ...