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What can penicillin cure?
I think that it treats many things. One example is strep troat.
How many days do you take doxycycline for?
Doxycycline can and does treat syphilis and is used for those who cannot tolerate penicillin. It often has to be used with other meds like antibiotics for the eyes. It takes approximately two weeks - 400-500 mgs per day.
Name a disease where penicillin has been very sucessful?
Penicillin is mainly used for treating infections, STDs, and diseases spread from animals. A particular disease it has been successful in is Meningitis. Also cellulitis, gonorrhea, and syphilis.Penicillin is a mold that destroys bacteria. It will not cure a disease unless it is bacteria driven.
What bacterial infections does penicillin cure?
Penicillen is an antibiotic. This means it can only kills bacteria . It would be ineffective if you had a virus, like a cold or influenza. However, penicillen is only effective on organisms that have cell walls, as this it's their target. Luckily, this is the case for most bacteria. Penicillen is normally prescribed by your doctor.
Does benzyl penicillin cure streptocci?
Cure? Maybe, maybe not but Penicillin G and Penicillin V will kill may forms of staphylococcus and streptococcus. There are many, many penicillins on the market today such as: amoxicillin, ampicillin, oxacillin, cloxacillin, dicloxacillin, nafcillin, and piperacillin. There many more penicillins that can kill staph. Non-penicillin antibiotics are available that will kill stph and strept infections too (most cepphalosporins, vancomycin, cleocin, and most recently linazolid, To ensure a particular penicillin will kill a staph infection which has infected a person, first he must get his blood drawn and sent off for cultures and sensitivities. Then find which one drug is the safest for us to take and the most destructive to the bug which has infected some poor lug.
If you are twenty three weeks Pregnant can you take four penicillin pills at one time is?
no that will hurt the baby in many ways so no
Why is penicillin important in the field of medicine?
Penicillin is a gram positive antibiotic used to treat many types of bacterial infections including syphilis. It is of great importance to the medical field because it was in fact the first antibiotic to be discovered to assist in treatments of serious infectious disease.
How do you use word cure in a sentence?
Cure used as a noun: Penicillin was the first cure for many bad infections. That clinic says they have a cure for baldness. Cure used as a verb: Honey will make a cough feel better but it will not cure it. You can cure meat and fish by keeping it in salt. You cure concrete by keeping it damp. You cure rubber and tobacco by fermentation.
Why cant penicillin be used to cure every infection?
Penicillin is effective against gram positive and negative coccus types of bacteria and gram positive bacillus types of bacteria only. So it does not cover all the infections. Now a days many bacteria has developed resistance to it.
Who invented penecillin?
Alexander Fleming 1928 Penicillin antibiotics are historically significant because they were the first drugs that were effective against many serious bacterial infections, and subsequent diseases associated. In addition this antibiotic can beat syphilis and staph infections.
How many different atoms in penicillin?
There are 31 atoms total in penicillin.
Why was penicillin important in WW2?
Penicillin was vital in treating many injuries
