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Penicillin in sentence

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For a decade or so after Fleming’s discovery, penicillin remained a laboratory curiosity.
In the case of penicillin, some bacteria produce compounds that can break down the key structure that interferes with cell wall synthesis.
Meanwhile, 5 to 15% of patients in developed countries self-identify as allergic to penicillin, making it the most commonly reported drug allergy.
Many patients acquire the allergy label as children, when a rash appears after they’re treated for an infection with penicillin or closely related drugs.
The rash is often blamed on penicillin, while the more likely culprit is the original infection, or a reaction between the infection and the antibiotic.
However, genuine penicillin allergies, where our immune systems mistake penicillin for an attacker, do occur rarely and can be very dangerous.
Even if you do have a penicillin allergy, your immune cells that react to the drug may lose their ability to recognize it.
Whereas China could get healthy much earlier, because they applied the knowledge of education, nutrition, and then also benefits of penicillin and vaccines and family planning.
This training set included known antibiotics, such as Cipro and penicillin, as well as many drugs that are not antibiotics.
It's not roads, or penicillin, or factory tires; it's the new stuff.
You could have made it in the 1920s; you wouldn't have had penicillin.
They get soap, hygiene, education, vaccination, penicillin and then family planning.
Reverby was completing a final task in her two decades of studying the PHS’s detestable Tuskegee experiments, in which hundreds of African-American men with late-stage syphilis were observed but not treated, even after penicillin was developed.
This conclusion would most likely be valid, because the use of antibiotics before 1930 – just two years after Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin and years before it was fully workable as a cure – was rare and mostly inadvertent.
But now suppose that the economist goes on to argue that, therefore, it would be silly to give patients penicillin, because we know that 98% of all treatable diseases were cured by tradicines, and penicillin is not a tradicine.
It does not show that penicillin does not work.
Antibiotics That WorkMEXICO CITY – From the discovery of penicillin in 1928 to the introduction of the last of the main groups of antibiotics in the 1960s, humanity’s capacity to fight pathogenic bacteria has been transformative.
Decades before the discovery of cures like penicillin, there was no alternative but to invest in prevention to beat infectious diseases and protect growing urban populations.
During World War II, when army doctors were forced to ration doses of penicillin, they decided to give first priority to men with sexually transmitted diseases, who would be ready to return to the battlefield more quickly.
As he warned in 1945, “the thoughtless person playing with penicillin is morally responsible for the death of the man who finally succumbs to infection with the penicillin-resistant organism.”
Widespread misuse of antibiotics in agriculture is one of the most egregious forms of “playing with penicillin.”
Less than 100 years after the development of penicillin, drug-resistant superbugs are threatening to gain the upper hand in our fight against bacterial infections.
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