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What is the action of antibiotics used to treat Gram negative bacterial infections?
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Most work by inhibiting cell wall biosynthesis in the bacteria.
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Action of ampicillin?
Ampicillin belongs to the beta lactam group of antibiotics. It is semi synthetic penicillin. It acts against, both the gram positive and gram negative bacteria. So it is some times called as broad spectrum antibiotic. It has got bactericidal action.
Can you take a z pack while taking Tamiflu?
Yes. According to the Tamiflu prescription information: TAMIFLU has been shown to have a minimal chance of negatively interacting with other medications. Over-the-counter medications may be prescribed to reduce severity of symptoms while the antiviral action of TAMIFLU takes effect. Antibiotics and Tamiflu should be OK taken together, however, depending on the reason for the antibiotic, you may want to get counseling from the Pharmacist or your doctor before using both. Remember that Tamiflu is an antiviral and is for treating viral infections, not for treating bacterial infections. Antibiotics, like Z-pack are made for treating bacterial infections.
What is ciprofloxacin used for?
Ciprofloxacin is one of the fluoroquinolone group of antibacterials. It is very useful antibacterial drug. It should not be used commonly. Although it is used like food item or as a fever reducing drug by quacks in most developing countries. This drug has very wide spectrum of antibacterial action. It can cause serious damage to the cartilages. This drug is a drug of choice for typhoid fever. Resistance to this drug is seen commonly due to large scale misuse.
What is neomycin used for?
neomycin is an aminoglycoside. aminoglycosides are a group of antibiotics that use two effective modes of action to fight bacterial infections. 1.they inhibit protein synthesis in the bacteria. specifically, they inhibit protein synthesis by binding to subunits on the ribosome subunits causing mRNA to be misread and therefore not correctly translated intp proteins for growth and function. 2.they also damage the bacterial cell wall, leading to the death of the bacteria.
What happens if you take antibiotics for a viral infection?
They do not help unless they are given to treat or prevent a secondary bacterial infection, such as secondary bacterial pneumonia in the case of the flu, skin infections from scratching measles lesions, or other related secondary bacterial infections. Antibiotics are only effective for treating or preventing bacterial infections. There is no equivalent drug for use in viral infections. Other than careful hand washing and other preventive precautions, prevention with vaccinations is the way to avoid viral infections for many of these conditions, but not all, such as the common cold which does not yet have a vaccine for prevention.* *The viruses of the common cold mutate very quickly and easily and, before a vaccine can be developed and produced, the virus has already changed making the vaccine no longer useful before it is even put to use.
Why cant anti-biotics be used on flu or hiv?
Penicillin is an antibiotic; it fights bacteria. Flu and HIV are viruses, and antibiotics will not help a viral infection. Penicillin is effective against some types of bacteria. It has no action against viral infections like influenza (the flu) and HIV.
How do you discover the new multiple antibiotics and how to use them?
Due to large scale misuse of antibiotics by the unqualified doctors, you have landed in the problem of emergence of multi drug resistant bacteria. Now you have to invent the new antibiotics. Most of the best antibiotics are probably already discovered. Here is the way by which you will be able to find the new group of antibiotics to treat the infections with multi drug resistant bacteria. As you know you have most of the antibiotics that has derived from the Fungi. There are very few antibiotics that are derived from the bacteria. Bacitracin, Polymixin B, Amphotericin B are derived from the bacteria. They are much more toxic as compared to the antibiotics that are derived from Fungi. The antibiotics that will be derived from the bacteria will be toxic as well. But they are easy to discover and should be made available for the infections due to multi drug resistant bacteria. As you know that most of the bacterial infections are due to single type of bacteria. You usually get the respiratory tract infection due to single type of bacteria, for example. This usually happens when your immunity has lowered down due to respiratory viral infections. The simple question arise that as to why the multiple type of bacteria do not take over to cause the infection. The reason is as simple as Sir Alexander Fleming thought about the growth of penicillin. The given bacteria secretes the chemical to inhibit the growth of other bacteria. You may have to identify the different chemicals that are secreted by the bacteria. This chemical when added to the culture of other bacteria will inhibit the growth of those other bacteria. This why you can identify the large number of antibiotics that can inhibit the growth of other bacteria. Now the question arise as to how to use these antibiotics. Say for example the antibiotic produced by Mycoplasma pneumoniae can not be used against the same organism. It can be used against the other organisms. So you will have to go for the culture and sensitivity of the organism before you go for the treatment of the systemic bacterial infections. The above article is submitted to the science community for expert opinion and necessary action.
Why should you ask if there's an alternative to antibiotics?
Antibiotics are considered very useful against bacterial infections but, they are not useful against viral infections. The nature of antibiotics, and what they can do is often misunderstood, and those, otherwise very powerful medicines, get misused. Many times patients demand - and doctors oblige, prescribing more or stronger antibiotics then necessary. That could lead to the development of dangerous "superbugs" which are getting more and more resistant to antibiotics. With all the help antibiotics can provide, they are not harmless. A not very often thought side effect is their non-selective action on the friendly intestinal bacteria. They too, get killed with the harmful ones. Friendly intestinal bacteria is vital for the production of Vitamin K, which in turn is needed for the production of four different kinds of clotting factors by the liver. Put it simply, clotting factors prevent us to bleed to death. Another problem that can happen with overuse/misuse of antibiotics is the changing of the intestinal flora. After the friendly ones got decimated, harmful ones often proliferate, enabling fungal infections to take hold easier. For these reasons, if antibiotics are not necessery, and your health provider could help you with an alternative medicament, it might be sensible to take it.
What is the significance of microbiology in everyday life?
microbiology is very helpful in daily life. bacteria ferment milk to produce yougart, wine and vinegar is produced by bacterial action, cheese is produced by bacterial action, compost is produced by bacterial action.
What is referring to a substance that can be decomposed by bacterial action?
Any substance that can be decomposed by bacterial action is referred to as biodegradable. For example, plastic is not biodegradable but paper is a biodegradable material.
What allows a microorganism to avoid the action of antibiotics?
environment
Refering to a substance that can be decomposed by bacterial action?
biodegradable
