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How were antibiotics discovered?

Antibiotics were discovered by accident. Alexander Fleming left a vial of staphylococcus bacteria unattended for several days. Due to the usual disorder for his laboratory, a colony of mold fungi grew in a test tube and began to destroy bacteria, and then Fleming isolated the active substance - penicillin.

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