penicillin
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One of those compounds was probenecid, a medication originally introduced in the 1940s to help conserve scarce supplies of penicillin by reducing how much of the antibiotic was excreted in urine.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
Some important drugs, including penicillin, rely on small ring-shaped molecules that store large amounts of internal tension.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026
Common problems that could have been treated with an office visit and a few penicillin pills will blossom into heart-valve infections and organ failure.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026
Which is why, a few months ago, I found myself at St Mary's Hospital in London, famous for the discovery of penicillin, preparing to receive a nerve-wracking insight into my own gut health.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
“I can give you penicillin for the strep, but there’s not much I can do for the mono. You’ll have to wait it out. Still, once we’ve cleared out the strep, you should feel better.”
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Some bacteria have developed the ability to break down beta-lactam antibiotics like penicillins and cephalosporins, making them ineffective.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024
"The fungus growing on the hedgehog was releasing penicillins," explained Prof Holmes.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2022
The second were synthetic penicillins, modified in the lab to resist the bugs' enzymes.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2013
It steadily gained resistance against entire classes of antibiotics: first the penicillins in the 1960s, then the tetracyclines in the 1980s, and Cipro and its chemical cousins, known as fluoroquinolones, in the 1990s.
From Scientific American ● May 4, 2012
This procedure may well produce animal bacteria that transmit drug resistance to bacteria that infect humans; indeed, such new strains may be resistant to all penicillins and tetracyclines.
From Time Magazine Archive
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