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Why is penicillin important in the field of medicine?

Updated: 8/19/2019
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Penicillin is a gram positive antibiotic used to treat many types of bacterial infections including syphilis. It is of great importance to the medical field because it was in fact the first antibiotic to be discovered to assist in treatments of serious infectious disease.

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