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Transcription
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"Alexander
Fleming went away on holiday, he left a number
of bacteria growing in plates in his laboratory,
when he came back from holiday he realised that
a reproductive spore from a fungus had contaminated
one of his plates of bacteria.
When
he looked at it closely he discovered that the
growth of bacteria near where the fungus had landed,
the bacteria had actually started dying and he
thought there must be something in the fungus
that was killing the bacteria.
This
mould, this fungus was called penicillium and
he decided to try to look more closely at this
fungus and see if he could isolate what it was
that was killing the bacteria and he wondered
whether this would be able to treat people who
were dying from bacterial caused diseases."
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Dr.
Tilli Tansey, medical historian, The Wellcome Institute,
London
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