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One of his best known discoveries
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Alexander accidenlty discovered that an active ingredient in mould turned out to be infection fighting substance
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One day Flemming put all his cultures of straphylococci in a room. When he came back he noticed one of his expirements was contaminated with mould and that he could make an antibiotic which he called PNC
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isolation of PNC is the start of modern antibiotics
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He published PNC in the British journal of expiremental pathology
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It developed antibiotic resistance when a little amount of PNC was used....