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What is the mechanisms of resistance to chloramphenicol?
Chloramphenicol is one of the broad spectrum antibiotic used to treat typhoid fever. Resistance occur by way of mutation in ribosomes, By way of decreased permeability of cell wall and production of inactivating enzyme.
Penicillin antibiotic in broad spectrum?
No, Pencillin is a narrow spectrum antibiotic.
Is tetracycline a broad or narrow spectrum antibiotic?
Broad
What broad spectrum antibiotic is used on chlamydia and works at the ribosome?
Azithromycin is the broad spectrum antibiotic that kills chlamydia by working at the ribosome.
Is bacterium a broad spectrum antibiotic?
There is no antibiotic called as bacterium. So there is no question of it's being called as broad spectrum or narrow spectrum antibiotic. Bacterium is a term related to bacteria, a type of micro-organism.
WHAT IS ultra-broad spectrum?
It is a term for antibiotics. An ultra broad range antibiotic can be used against many no. of microbes not a particular microbe. Meropenem is an ultra broad spectrum antibiotic.
Does penicillin capsules work for human infections?
Penicillin is not a broad spectrum antibiotic like chloramphenicol or the tetracycline. In fact the penicillin is a narrow spectrum antibiotic. It kills the gram positive and gram negative cocci and gram positive bacilli only. Now a days many bacteria has become resistant to penicillin.
Is there penicillin in moxibay 400mg broad spectrum antibiotic?
no
What is a miscellaneous antibiotic?
A wide range antibiotic that will cover a broad spectrum of possible bacteria.
What does Chloramphenicol do?
Chloramphenicol is a broad spectrum antibiotic. It functions by inhibiting protein synthesis in bacterial cells by binding to the ribosome. The ribosomes of prokaryotic cells are 70S where as eukaryotes have 80S ribosomes, this fundimental difference means that chloamphenicol specifcally targets bacterial protein synthesis. It is effective against Gram positive as well as Gram negative bacteria.
What does tetracyclin do?
It is a broad spectrum antibiotic that is particularly successful in treating Rickettsial infections.
What is broad or narrow spectrum?
Term broad and narrow spectrum are used in antibiotics The broad spectrum antibiotic can have its effect on many microbial species like penicillin and a narro spectrum antibiotic have its effect on one or few species
