The compounds that can be used to treat bacterial infections are known as antibiotics.
Selman Waksman coined the term "antibiotics" for the first time in 1942 to describe the anti-microbial properties of medications made by microbes.
In the year 1928, Alexander Fleming made the first antibiotic discovery.
Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, and Sir Howard Walter Florey shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of penicillin and its ability to treat a variety of infectious ailments.
Vancomycin 3.0 is one of the most potent antibiotics ever created. It is used to treat conditions like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-induced meningitis, endocarditis, joint infections, and bloodstream and skin infections.