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Penicillin

In Our Time

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The Impact of Penicillin on the Treatment of Infectious Diseases

Most penicillin type molecules are still good drugs today. They're very good at things like staphylococci and streptococci. Gram-positive bacteria go a different colour when you expose them to what's called the gram stain. And they go purple and gram-negative bacteria like E. coli go a pinky colour. The major, most obvious impact was in treatment of infectious diseases.

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