Question

What was the first isolated antibiotic?
1. Terramycin
2. Penicillin
3. Streptomycin
4. Neomycin

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Penicillin

The Correct Answer is Penicillin.

• Penicillin, the first true antibiotic, was discovered by Alexander Fleming, Professor of Bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital in London.
• Penicillin was first discovered in 1928 and is now the most widely used antibiotic in the world.
• This year marks the 80^th anniversary of the discovery of penicillin, the first naturally occurring antibiotic drug discovered and used therapeutically. 

• Terramycin
  • It is a prescription medicine used to treat the symptoms of a wide variety of bacterial infections.
• Streptomycin
  • It is an antibiotic medication used to treat a number of bacterial infections. This includes tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium complex, brucellosis, endocarditis, Burkholderia infection, tularemia, rat-bite fever, and plague.
• Neomycin
  • It is an aminoglycoside antibiotic that displays bactericidal activity against gram-negative aerobic bacilli and some anaerobic bacilli where resistance has not yet arisen.