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"General Background: About Bacteria & Antibiotics." //Tufts University//. Web. 05 Apr. 2011. < [] >.


 * "Alexander Fleming, a Scottish scientist, is credited with discovering the first antibiotic, penicillin." (paragraph 1)
 * "He went on to show that the effect was due to a diffusible substance made by the mold." (paragraph 1)
 * "However, penicillin was not available to the general public until the early 1940s when scientists learned how to produce and purify large amounts of penicillin" (paragraph 1)
 * "In fact, technically speaking, Fleming may have rediscovered a substance that had been found before" (paragraph 2)
 * "In 1896, the French medical student Ernest Duchesne showed antibiotic properties of the mold //Penicillium//, but did not report a connection between the fungus and a substance that had antibacterial properties." (paragraph 2)
 * "In 1895, there was a report by an Italian researcher, Vincenzo Tiberio, describing a natural substance from molds which had antibacterial properties resembling penicillin." (paragraph 3)
 * "In 1928, he noticed that bacteria could not survive on a plate that contained a mold commonly found on bread." (paragraph 1)
 * "//Penicillium// was unknown to the scientific community until Fleming discovered the phenomenon and the substance, and named it penicillin." (paragraph 2)
 * " Yet another report describes a professor at John Hopkins University in Baltimore who showed his students an agar plate with a mold which inhibited bacterial growth. (Levy, S.B. //The Antibiotic Paradox. How Misuse of Antibiotics Destroys Their Curative Powers//. Perseus Books, 2002)." (paragraph 3)
 * " So perhaps others had seen and described the phenomenon, but Fleming was the first to bring such a substance to wide scientific attention." (paragraph 3)
 * [Fleming may have been credited with the discovery, but wasn't the first to discover penicillin]
 * [Vincenzo Tiberio may have discovered penicilin]
 * [Many scientists noticed pinicilin, but didn't connect it to be antibacterial]
 * [Fleming named penicilin]
 * [Fleming "rediscovered" penicilin, but was able to bring it to the market as an antibiotic]