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The first antibiotic discovered by Alexander Fleming was obtained from a fungus named___

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The first antibiotic was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. He discovered it when the Penicillium fungus grew over a culture of Staphylococcus bacteria. He isolated the compound that was responsible for this and named it as Penicillin.

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