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Who discovered the first antibiotic?(a) Alexander Fleming(b) Louis Pasteur(c) Francis Crick(d) Kary MullisThe question was posed to me in an interview for internship.The doubt is from Production of Antibiotics (Isolation of Fermentation Products) topic in portion Antibiotics & Enzyme Immobilization of Drug Biotechnology

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The correct option is (a) ALEXANDER Fleming

For explanation I would say: The antibiotic penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1929, but its commercial production commenced only during the early 1940s. Fleming was ALSO the first to raise a concern about the potential of bacteria developing resistance due to the EXPLOITATION of ANTIBIOTICS, a problem which poses a MAJOR threat to healthcare in this era.



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