Medically reviewed by Alex Yampolsky, PharmD Amoxicillin and penicillin (also known as penicillin V potassium or penicillin G ...
The main classes of antibiotics and key drugs are listed below - however there are hundreds of antibiotics and this list is by no means exhaustive. Penicillin was the first antibiotic to be discovered ...
By 1940, the Oxford research group, which also included biochemist Norman Heatley, had determined how to grow the mold and purify the penicillin, and shown that it could save mice from three different ...
Penicillins are still widely used today, though many types of bacteria are now resistant.