What was the main achievement of Fleming?

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Fleming inspired himself to investigate this further, and by doing so, he found that mold culture actually prevented the growth of the staphylococci.  He named this active substance penicillin. Fleming found that penicillin was able to eliminate harmful bacteria, such as streptococcus, meningococcal and the diphtheria bacillus. Fleming documented his findings and published them in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology in June 1929. Later bacteriologists were able to develop this further into an anti-biotic...
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