miércoles, 10 de junio de 2009


Penicillin discovery by Fabiola

Alexander Fleming has been known for several years as the scientific who discovered penicillin. Every book that has been writen abroad about this topic has his name in it but the real history has emerged to people in year 2000, when a group of scientists that worked in the San Juan de Dios Hospital of Costa Rica published original manuscripts made by Dr. Clodomiro Picado Twight. These showed that he worked with "penicillin sp" fungi to inhibit the development of staphylococci and streptococci bacteria between 1915 and 1927.
Picado reported his discovery to The Paris Science Academy which published a report with the results of the treatments he had performed in 1927, but he didn't patent it despite having made this research years before Fleming, who discovered it in 1928.
Clodomiro Picado was a very important scientist who is known all around the word for being the first man who made research about snake venoms and his main achievement was the development of anti-venom serums.

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