Antibiotics

Question 1

What’s an antibiotic

Answer 1

Any treatment that destroys or limits the growth of bacteria in the human body

Question 2

Who discovered penicillin in 1928 and how?

Answer 2

Alexander Fleming
Petri dish growing mould killing the bacteria

Question 3

Who developed penicillin into a usable treatment in 1940? How did they do it?

Answer 3

Florey and Chain
Got funding, set up testing on animals, policeman with a cut (better then died cos they ran out)

Question 4

What was streptomycin and who discovered it in 1943?

Answer 4

Selman Wakston
Effective against tuberculosis which was previously thought of as incurable

Question 5

Cause, consequences and preventions of bacterial resistance

Answer 5

Mutations pass along genes, reduce the use of antibiotics when possible, diseases may become incurable