Penicillin (whiles abbreviatit PCN or pen) is a group o antibiotics derived frae Penicillium fungi,[1] includin penicillin G, procaine penicillin, benzathine penicillin, an penicillin V. Penicillin wis diskivert in 1928 bi Scots scientist Alexander Fleming.[2]

Penicillin core structur, whaur "R" is the variable group.

Penicillin antibiotics are historically signeeficant acause thay are the first drugs that wur effective against mony previously serious diseases, such as syphilis, an infections caused bi staphylococci an streptococci.[2] Penicillins are still widely uised the day, tho mony types o bacteria hae nou acome resistant.[3] Aw penicillins are β-lactam antibiotics an are uised in the treatment o bacterial infections caused bi susceptible, uisually Gram-positive, organisms.

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  1. Penicillin at the Free Dictionary
  2. a b "Alexander Fleming Discovery and Development of Penicillin - Landmark". American Chemical Society (in Inglis). Retrieved 10 Mey 2022.
  3. "Antibiotic resistant bacteria - Better Health Channel". www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 10 Mey 2022.