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"Penicillin is created by a bacteria" - I think Penicillin is made by a fungus.
by dan_hawkins 7y ago
"Penicillin is created by a bacteria" - I think Penicillin is made by a fungus.
- btilly 7y agoYou are correct, my bad. But the production problem is what I described. The fungus is resistant but not immune to its own poison. It therefore proved very hard to produce commercially viable amounts. However once a mass production method was found, it was considered vital to the war effort and we quickly ramped up production.