MICROPARA 7

• Alexander flemming discovered penicillin from a mould and identified it as Penicillium rubrum
• it was not the mould itself but the juice it had produced
• Howerd Florey and Ernst Chain, they were able to mass-produced the “mould juice” for the use during World War II.
• In 1939, Howerd Florey and Ernst Chain, growing Penicillium spp., extracted and purified penicillin.
• Charles Thom (mycologist), corrected the identification of Fleming’s mold to Penicillium notatum
• Gerhard Domagk - discovered sulfanilamide
• sulfanilamide was discovered in 1935
• Selman Waksman - discovered streptomycin
• streptomycin was discovered in 1943
• John Enders - first to cultivate viruses in cell cultures
•  John Enders - leading the way to the large-scale production of virus cultures for vaccine development
• Louis Pasteur - -Fermentation Pasteurization
• Louis Pasteur - discovered anaerobes
• Louis Pasteur - discovered infectious agents causing silkworm diseases