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What are the problems associated with doctors over prescribing penicillin?
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∙ 15y ago
Penicillin is a very effective antibiotic which causes the cell walls of bacteria to break down by adding it's beta-lactam ring (part of its chemical structure) to the molecules used to build the wall. This weakens the bacteria and they lyse.
If too much penicillin is prescribed in a population, and especially if courses are not completed and some bacteria survive, then resistant forms emerge. These develop an enzyme called beta-lactamase which breaks down penicillin before it can have its effect. As such, they survive courses of penicillin and its related drugs, and a penicillin-resistant strain is formed which can only be treated with other drugs.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agowell if you are allergic then you can puke or even die but apart from that i don't think there anything else
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