When I was a boy we all knew about syphilis and gonorrhea, but
because of penicillin they were supposed to be on the way out.
Not exact matches
Donald Johanson put the point effectively, if crudely: «You can't accept one part
of science
because it brings you good things like electricity and
penicillin and throw away another part
because it brings you some things you don't like about the origin
of life.»
Partly
because of Soviet and Western practices,
penicillin has lost much
of its effectiveness over the decades due to today's resistant pathogens.
Even as undoubtedly useful a drug as
penicillin probably wouldn't be approved today,
because of the (albeit low) frequency
of toxic side effects.
This is useful
because it could mean industrial production
of proteins using bacteria, to make biofuels or
penicillin, say, could avoid the infection issues that mean entire vats have to be thrown away.
He put me on Doxycycline Monohydrate
because I am allergic to
penicillin and Xifaxan is a distant derivative
of penicillin.
Bivalves such as clams, mussels and oysters contain high levels
of B12
because they siphon large quantities
of vitamin B12 - synthesizing microorganisms from the sea.3 Production
of B12 supplements involves fermentation procedures similar to those used for
penicillin and other antibiotics.
Because the
penicillins may also alter gut flora, antibiotic - associated diarrhea can occur, as well as selecting out resistant bacteria maintaining residence in the colon
of the animal (superinfections).