
In 1928, Alexander Fleming came back from a two-week holiday to find a mould had drifted onto one of his Staphylococcus plates, and the clear ring where the bacteria had died became the accidental beginning of the antibiotic era.
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from a two-week holiday to find a mould had drifted onto one of his Staphylococcus plates at St Mary's Hospital in London. The clear ring around the mould, where the bacteria had died, became the accidental beginning of the antibiotic era.
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