Antibacterial Warfare: The Production of Natural Penicillin and the Search for Synthetic Penicillin During the Second World War
B Short Abstract Begun in 1940 during World War II, the research into natural penicillin later involved British, United States and Australian military forces in carrying out the necessary extensive field testing. Penicillin-G and penicillin-V are the two natural penicillins whose chemical structures were ultimately uncovered in the US and Britain, respectively. The difficulties in […]