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When were antibiotics first used against tuberculosis?
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I don't have precise knowledge, but penecillin came on line during WW2 and made a significant contribution to the Allied victory. The Germans and Japanese did not have it.
It not only massively improved the treatment of battle wounds, but was also used to clear up venereal diseases which inevitably flourish in vast armies far from home.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 13y agostreptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against M. tuberculosis, was discovered in the early 1940s
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What were the first true antibiotics used against pathogenic bacteria?
penicillins
What is treptomycin?
Streptomycin is an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis and other types of serious infections. This was discovered in the year 1943 and the first antibiotic that was effective against tuberculosis.
Who was the first person to get tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis is named for the bacterium that causes it, "mycobacterium tuberculosis", which was first "seen" by Robert Koch, a German physician. Tuberculosis used to be called "consumption".
What diseases can you treat with antibiotics?
Only those which arise from an infection caused by bacteria. Antibiotics are not useful against viruses. Examples - Tuberculosis, Sinus Infections, Strep Throat, Urinary Tract Infections
What are the four antibiotics?
You have four groups in beta lactum antibiotics: First is Penicillin group. Second is Cephalosporin group. Third is Monobactum antibiotic with only beta lactum ring in their structure. Fourth is Carbapenem group of antibiotic. Then you have Macrolides. Then Aminoglycosides. Tetracycline group and Chloramphenicol as broad spectrum antibiotics. Then you have Rifampicin and Rifabutin used in Tuberculosis.
What are advantages and disadvantage of using antibiotics?
Well, antibiotics can defend against bacteria some parasites and some fungi. They can't immunise your body against viruses because they evolve too quickly. That's why there is no antibiotics for the common cold. Also, if you use too many antibiotics, the cells you are trying to defend against will effectively get used to the antibiotics and will find a way to defeat them. The antibiotics will be useless.
Why cant antibiotics be used to to treat hiv or aids?
Antibiotics are only effective against bacteria, not viruses, and HIV is a virus.
What birth defects can antibiotics cause?
Certain antibiotics are known tetratogens. Tetracycline affects bone growth and discolors the teeth. Drugs used to treat tuberculosis can lead to hearing problems and damage to a nerve in the head (cranial damage).
How does one get a tuberculosis?
yes. secondary tuberculosis which is more common in adult is actually the reactivation of the bacterial (M. Tuberculosis) which remain dormant in the lung after the first infection that can go back years ago.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using?
Well, antibiotics can defend against bacteria some parasites and some fungi. They can't immunise your body against viruses because they evolve too quickly. That's why there is no antibiotics for the common cold. Also, if you use too many antibiotics, the cells you are trying to defend against will effectively get used to the antibiotics and will find a way to defeat them. The antibiotics will be useless.
A paragraph on antibiotics ''why antibiotics are not overused?
The more antibiotics are used, the more likely it is for antibiotic resistant organisms to appear. The germ causing the infection can become resistant ("immune") to the antibiotic, then it will basically make it useless in the fight against that germ. Antibiotics are medicines that are used to kill or stop the reproduction in bacteria. Antibiotics are mainly used to stop infections or infectious diseases, and since its discovery,If antibiotics is overused it may kill the benefitical bacteria in our body if we take unneccesarly the drugs become less effective .Antibiotics, however,are not effective against cold and flu as these are caused by viruses.
What group of organisms were first used to produce antibiotics?
penicilline
