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What is the difference between an antibiotic and an antimicrobic?
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What is a superinfection?
An infection occurring during antimicrobic therapy that is caused by an overgrowth of drug-resistant microorganisms.
Difference between direct and indirect selection of mutant bacteria?
Direct selection occurs when the bacteria are cultured in conditions where only the mutant will grow. For example, if a mutant bacterium has gained resistance to a specific antibiotic, only the mutant will be able to grow on media containing that specific antibiotic. Indirect selection occurs when the bacteria are cultured in conditions where the growth of the mutant is different from the growth of the wild type.
What is the difference between ontogeny and phylogeny?
answer difference between ontogeny and phylogeny?
What is the difference between a lump and a bump?
There is no difference between a bump and a lump.
What is the difference between ascomycetes and zygomycetes?
what is the difference between ascomycotes and zygomycotes
What is the difference between antibiotic and anti-inflammatory medication?
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Which antimicrobic does not inhibit cell wall synthesis?
gentamicin
What is the difference between biotic and antibiotic?
biotic is where something is nonliving and abiotic is something that is living or was living
What is the difference between Pantoprazole and rabeprazole?
The difference between pantoprazole and rabeprazole is rabeprazole can be used with an antibiotic to treat H. pylori infections in the stomach. Pantoprazole comes in a stronger dose of 40mg.
What is the difference between neosporin and triple antibiotic cream?
Nothing honestly, triple antibiotic cream is just a cheap for of neosporin. You can use either of them if you'd like, they both are safe and effective.
What is the difference between MIC and MBC?
MIC - Minimum Inhibitory Concentration is the lowest concentration of an antibiotic needed to stop the microbe from reproducing.MBC - Minimum Biocidal Concentration is the lowest concentration of an antibiotic needed to kill the microbe.
What is a superinfection?
An infection occurring during antimicrobic therapy that is caused by an overgrowth of drug-resistant microorganisms.
What is the difference between polysporin and?
Polysporin is used as an ointment to treat cuts and scrapes. This provides an antibiotic coverage to kill germs and prevent infection.
What is the difference between treatment with an antibiotic and immunization?
The main differences between an antibiotic and an immunization are that an immunization is a preventative measure and an antibiotic is usually used to treat a current illness, another difference is that a vast majority of immunizations are either a small amount of live or dead virus that it is meant to protect against whereas antibiotics are not. Immunizations are used to treat specific diseases and ailments where antibiotics are used on more of a broad spectrum usually. Hope this answers most of your questions.
What is the difference between Kirby-Bauer and mueller-hinton?
Kirby-Bauer is the diffusion method you would use to test antibiotic sensitivity. The Mueller-Hinton is the agar plate in which you would do the method on. This is where the antibiotic discs would be places to test the sensitivity.
What is the same between and antibiotic and an antiseptic?
It kills bacteria.
What are the similarities between a vaccine and an antibiotic?
they both can be given through shots.
