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Penicillium

[ UK /pˌɛnɪsˈɪli‍əm/ ]
NOUN
  1. genus of fungi commonly growing as green or blue molds on decaying food; used in making cheese and as a source of penicillin

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  • The search engines would not have realized, as did Sir Alexander Fleming, that the penicillium mold forming on some accidentally spilled rye bread crumbs and preventing staphylococcus bacteria from growing in his Petrie dish could herald the discovery of the life-saving antibiotic, penicillin. Marshall P. Duke: Pancake People, Rise Up!
  • This is because the cheese maker has to let the air inside the cheese for the penicillium (the blue cheese mold) to develop.
  • OBJECTIVE To explore the identification method and the clinic Penicillium marneffei.
  • The mould turned out to be a variety called penicillium, and the discovery led to the first antibiotics.
  • From an environmental standpoint alone - there were serious indoor mold problems with stachybotrys, aspergillus, penicillium, chaetomium, trichoderma, fusarium, cladosporium and others found in the toxic home. Toxic Mold Wall Street Uncovers Conflict
  • The first thing I learned was that to make penicillin, you have to grow a mold called penicillium. Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Gets Slimed!
  • From an environmental standpoint alone - there were serious indoor mold problems with stachybotrys, aspergillus, penicillium, chaetomium, trichoderma, fusarium, cladosporium and others found in the toxic home. Toxic Mold Wall Street Uncovers Conflict
  • Also in the common gray mould of infusions and preserves, Penicillium, by a process which is perhaps intermediate between budding and cell-division, a cell at the end of a hypha constricts itself in several places, and the constricted portions become separate as _conidiospores_. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
  • Objective To explore the epidemiological relationship between animals and human penicillium marneffei ( PM ).
  • There are tens of thousands of brilliant biological researchers out there, but only Fleming had the wit to cause penicillium notatum to float in the window. Two Kinds of Innovation
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