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Penicillium notatum


Penicillium notatum is the fungi from which originates the well-known antibiotic penicillin, discovered first in 1896 by French physician Ernest Duchesne, forgotten, and then rediscovered by chance by Alexander Fleming in 1928. It belongs to the deuteromycetes family, and has no known sexual state.



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