The circulation of penicillin in Spain: health, wealth and authority
The circulation of penicillin in Spain: health, wealth and authority
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青霉素在西班牙的流通：健康、财富和权威
DOI：
10.1080/00033790.2018.1548030
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发表时间：
2018
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0.3
通讯作者：
D. Cozzoli
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作者：
D. Cozzoli
1948年夏天，以青霉素的发现者而闻名于世的亚历山大·弗莱明访问了西班牙。弗莱明在1929年发表了一篇著名的关于青霉菌的抗菌作用的论文。在20世纪30年代，研究人员致力于从霉菌中提取治疗药物的方法，到1942年，美国的制药公司已经开发出大规模生产的有效方法。青霉素在第二次世界大战期间被盟军大量使用，并迅速蔓延到世界各地。走私物资于1944年首次抵达西班牙，一年后第一批正式抵达。它治愈以前致命的感染的能力几乎是奇迹。它是定义新抗生素时代的神奇药物。
In the summer of 1948 Alexander Fleming, known around the world as the discoverer of penicillin, visited Spain. Fleming had published his famous paper on the antimicrobial effect of the Penicillium notatum mould in 1929. During the 1930s researchers worked on methods to extract therapeutic agents from the mould, and by 1942 drug companies in the US had developed efficient methods of mass production. Penicillin was used heavily by Allied troops during the Second World War and quickly spread around the world. Smuggled supplies first arrived in Spain in 1944, with the first official batches following a year later. Its capacity to cure previously fatal infections appeared almost miraculous. It was the wonder drug which defined the new antibiotic age.