MadSci Network: Microbiology
Query:

Re: Could bread mold be useful as a source of antibiotic/antifungal/etc?

Date: Fri Jan 29 12:28:56 1999
Posted By: Glenn Boyd, Staff, Microbiologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Area of science: Microbiology
ID: 916356162.Mi
Message:

I know of no medicinal use for bread mold or derivatives of bread mold. It is a decomposer of plant and animal material as is found in abundance in nature.

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You might be thinking of the story of how penicillin was discovered. The truth is stranger than fiction! Look at the following web page (and its assorted links): Bread - Science Museum of Minnesota

-- Andreas Matern


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