Discovery of Penicillin | How Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic? #biologyfacts

Story of discovery of Penicillin, the first antibiotic takes us to the era of the First World War. Dr. Alexander Fleming was an army doctor. He observed that many injured soldiers died because of bacterial infection of wounds. He was working on antibiotics in his lab. One day he keenly observed that some fungi were preventing the growth of bacteria in the petridish, in which he was growing bacterial colonies. How did this strange phenomenon lead to the discovery of first true antibiotic, Penicillin? Watch this short to know more..

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