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Staphylococcus aureus
If the Staphylococcus aureus had not been described in 1880 by the surgeon Alexander Ogston, these bacteria wouldn’t have been studied by Alexander Fleming -
Patent
If the doctor Clodomiro Picado Twight Rican had patented his research on the inhibitory action of Penicillium fungi on the growth of staphylococcus and streptococcus, between 1915 and 1929, We wouldn't have met the bacteriologist Alexander Fleming like penicillin's discoverer -
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
If the Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming had not forgotten the Staphylococcus aureus cultive's in 1928,the fungus that produced the substance that causes death to the bacteria wouldn't have grown up in this cultive -
Antibiotic action
If penicillin had not exercised its bactericidal action, altering the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus, Penicillin would not have considered by Fleming either its antibiotic action -
Penicillin
If penicillin had not been invented, We would have died of a simple respiratory infection -
Cecil George Paine
If Cecil George Paine, student of Fleming, had not proved that the administration of penicillin was useful in the medical field, using this product for the treatment of psychosis and neonatal ophthalmia, penicillin would have taken a little longer to get to medical field in 1930 -
War wounds
If the antibiotic effect of penicillin had not been discovered, the Second World War would have brought more deaths that we know today because of the infections acquired in the war wounds. -
Howard Florey and Boris Chain
If Howard Florey and Boris Chain had not isolated and purified in 1940 the product found by Fleming, penicillin would not been the first antibiotic in the history. -
Treatment of syphilis
If penicillin had not been effective in the treatment of syphilis, Salvarsan and Neosalvarsan would have been the pharmacological treatment of choice for this condition -
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
If penicillin had not been made excellent antibiotic effect, Howard Walter Florey, Ernst B. Chain and Alexander Fleming would not awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 -
the resistance
If many bacteria had not been developed resistance to penicillin, Scientifics would not need to develop other alternative antibiotic drugs